DHS chief on gang members at the border: 'I have to let them in'

The Washington Times ^ | February 6, 2018 | Stephen Dinan

[george76]

American border officials cannot refuse to let in gang members who either sneak in or show up at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, government officials said Tuesday as they pleaded for congressional action to close loopholes gang members are exploiting.

“When they come to our border I have to let them in,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said at a White House roundtable.

“This is unique to our country, and it’s got to change,” President Trump chimed in.

Mr. Trump has made highlighting and combatting MS-13 a major tenet of his immigration policy, and his aides bolstered his case with graphic stories and photos of victims of MS-13 violence.

...

The reason MS-13 is so massive in our country, the reason why they have 10,000 members in 40 states and the District of Columbia, is because many of those gang members have illegally entered our country,” Mr. Cronan said. “MS-13 can simply replenish its jail population by sending more and more members across our borders.”

...

30 percent of MS-13 members arrested in recent anti-gang operations came to the U.S. as part of the surge of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) that overwhelmed the Obama administration in its final years in office.

Agent Melendez said of 40,810 UAC who arrived in the U.S. and were granted initial entry in 2017, more than half of them are males ages 13 to 17 from the Central American countries that serve as the source for MS-13.

[cpforlife.org]

‘I have to let them in’

More evidence that this has always been an invasion. Purposely orchestrated by the democrats and RINOs who will never stop trying to fundamentally transform the country as founded.

[posterchild]

That is amazing. Too bad it has been going on this long.

[momincombatboots]

Maybe my Constitution knowledge is rusty.. what part of Sovereign Nation does this duo not comprehend? They are either liars or they are incompetent.. so which is it?

[dsc]

“There is a reason why they are so hard to apprehend and that is that everyone is terrified of them.”

How about a law that says when a US citizen not otherwise in the commission of a felony shoots an illegal alien gang member, it is to be presumed that the border-crasher is at fault, and the US citizen shall not be prosecuted or otherwise inconvenienced?

[TADSLOS]

Ping.

[dsc]

“In other words must shoot them.”

A trial by military tribunal is required, if memory serves.

[firebrand]

You won’t find me opposing it!

[Let's Roll]

Apparently no one at CNN or PMSNBC.

[DBeers]

“When they come to our border I have to let them in,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said at a White House roundtable.

I suspect that many of the 'loopholes' are premised in various Leftist judicial rulings that can only be corrected by Supreme Court challenge or Federal legislation...

[CedarDave]

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[LegendHasIt]

Thanks for the ping, Dave.

I have spread this around to my correspondents, as well as the cartoon from the other thread:

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