...shortly after Napolitano ordered a review of the Bellingham case the immigrant workers who were still in immigration detention were released.“I was just flabbergasted,” Guillen said. And the same immigration agents who had arrested the workers, she said, now promised them visas that would allow them to work temporarily in the U.S.
“Homeland Security drove them to the place where they had to go to fill out the paperwork for the work permits,” she said “That is totally unheard of.”
De facto amnesty, as Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform calls it.
I suggested that Napolitano was fixing the wrong problem - this was, indeed, reducing illegal immigration, but illegally making the illegal legal isn't exactly the right way to go about such reductions. If you're like me, you were scratching your head at the astounding turn of events from the chief enforcer of immigration law in this country. Now, we know why: Napolitano doesn't think illegal immigration is illegal.
On Sunday, April 19, 2009, Secretary Napolitano went on CNN’s “State of the Union” and proclaimed that crossing the border illegally is not a crime. This statement left a lot of folks scratching their heads given that U.S. law—the law Napolitano is sworn to uphold—says quite the opposite. Section 8, Title 1325 of the U.S. code clearly states that those who enter the U.S. illegally are committing a crime.
This ‘interpretation’ of the law by Secretary Napolitano seems to be the latest in an effort by the Obama Administration to scale back interior immigration enforcement efforts in the United States. As recently as March 28th, Napolitano made the decision to delay a series of immigration raids and other workplace actions aimed at finding illegal workers. At the same time, both President Obama and Secretary Napolitano have announced new initiatives intending to send the message that they take the issues at the southern border seriously. But the Administration cannot fight cartels while ignoring illegal immigration—people smuggling is part of the problem, not a separate issue. Legalization will only make matters worse. Granting the people here illegally asylum will only encourage more illegal border crossing. Likewise, failing to enforce workplace and immigration laws will only encourage more to ignore the law.
I think someone needs to remind her of the oath she swore just a couple months ago. I'm pretty sure it includes something about protecting and defending the Constitution. Or something like that.
Still, this does explain a lot, doesn't it? And, it is the latest in a long line of clear warning signs that the Obama administration has no use for the Constitution, American sovereignty, or the defense of law-abiding American citizens.
There's my two cents.
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