From Fox News: An Arizona sheriff says U.S. Border Patrol officials have repeatedly told him they have been ordered to reduce -- at times even stop -- arrests of illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the U.S. border. Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever told FoxNews.com that a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol told him as recently as this month that the federal agency’s office on Arizona's southern border was under orders to keep apprehension numbers down during specific reporting time periods. “The senior supervisor agent is telling me about how their mission is now to scare people back,” Dever said in an interview with FoxNews.com. “He said, ‘I had to go back to my guys and tell them not to catch anybody, that their job is to chase people away. … They were not to catch anyone, arrest anyone. Their job was to set up posture, to intimidate people, to get them to go back.” Dever said his recent conversation with the Border Patrol supervisor was the latest in a series of communications on the subject that he has had with various federal agents over the last two years. Dever said he plans to relay the substance of these conversations when he testifies under oath next month before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. “I will raise my hand to tell the truth and swear to God, and nothing is more serious or important than that,” he said. “I’m going to tell them that, here’s what I hear and see every day: I had conversation with agent A, B, C, D and this is what they told me.” http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/01/exclusive-federal-agents-told-reduce-border-arrests-arizona-sheriff-says/?test=latestnews Of course, Border Patrol supervisors said they were strenuously enforcing the border laws. But then, they had to break off the interview as a rare medical condition developed called Pinocchioitis- the lengthening of one's nose when lying your butt off. The most aflicted of this horrible condition is President Obama.
Then you have Janet Napolitano, DHS queen, says that illegal alien kids and young adults are also given a free pass. From the Washington Times: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that illegal immigrant students and young adults who meet the criteria in last year’s failed legalization bill in Congress are not a “priority” for her department’s law enforcement efforts. Wading into an increasingly thorny debate, Miss Napolitano said she cannot unilaterally ignore deportations laws for broad groups of illegal immigrants, but said students and young adults who would have been legalized had last year’s “Dream Act” legislation passed Congress are not a chief target of federal authorities. “I will say, and can say, that you know what? They are not, that group, if they truly meet all those criteria, and we see very few of them actually in the immigration system, if they truly meet those [criteria], they’re not the priority,” the secretary said at an event sponsored by NDN, a progressive think tank and advocacy group, on the future of the nation’s border policies. “The reason we set priorities is so that the focus could be on those in the country who are also committing other illegal acts,” she said. Miss Napolitano also insisted that the border is more secure now than in the past, and said that claims to the contrary are not only hurting business in those communities along the border, they show disrespect to those trying to enforce immigration laws. (emphasis mine) http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/1/dhs-illegal-immigrant-students-not-target-deportat/ While students and young adult should not be a main target, that doesn't mean that they should be ignored. Who is not to say that these kids and young adults are not entering the U.S. illegally by themselves? My guess is that young adults are the majority of people illegally entering the U.S. It's not grandparents or middle aged people crossing the border in huge numbers. It's the young adults. So, once again, we have an open border policy instituted by the Democrats. Once again, Democrats choose not follow the law. It must be in the DNA of State and National Democrat leaders to ignore the law.
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