Judicial Watch
In battling local immigration control measures nationwide, Obama’s Justice Department has claimed that they conflict with federal immigration law and undermine the government’s careful balance of immigration enforcement priorities and objectives. The Obama Administration has made this argument recently in cases against Arizona and Alabama.
But what is the administration doing about local governments that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities and blatantly ignore the legal status of arrested individuals? A group of Senate Judiciary Committee members posed the question to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano last week.
They specifically mentioned Cook County Illinois where local authorities openly flip the finger at the feds by refusing to report illegal immigrants who come in contact with police, even dangerous criminals. In fact, in 2007 Judicial Watch took legal action against the Chicago Police Department—which has a don’t-ask-don’t-tell immigration policy—after learning of an illegal immigrant sanctuary resolution that was being considered by Cook County’s Board of Commissioners at the time.
In a letter to Napolitano last week, the Judiciary Committee members—senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa), John Cornyn (Texas), Tom Coburn (Oklahoma) and Jeff Sessions (Alabama)—cite a recent meeting with a high-ranking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official who confirmed that Cook County creates a major problem for enforcement efforts. In fact, the ICE associate director of removal operations said Cook County’s egregious example of sanctuary city policies presents “an accident waiting to happen.”
So the senators ask Napolitano: “We would like to know what specific steps have been and will be taken by your Department to compel Cook County to reverse its policy of ignoring immigration detainers. In addition, we would request an overview of meetings held between federal officials and Cook County, including any emails or other documentation that exist, to understand how the federal government has been or is attempting to rectify the situation.”
Napolitano is urged to take a direct role in the matter by the lawmakers who remind the Homeland Security Secretary that Cook County’s ordinance creates a “serious threat to the public’s safety” that requires Napolitano’s “immediate and personal attention.” It’s a matter of national security, the veteran senators assert….
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All American citizens need to stand up against scantuary cities…these cities allow dangerous alliens back on our street instead of deporting them as required by law. They also are a magnet for illegals because of their scantuary policies so all taxpayers are in effect being forced to support illegals and the cities who defend them!
I'm planning to leave California as soon as possible. Let's see what happens to these states when people like me who pay the taxes are gone.
I have 2 weeks before I close on a house in another state. I am so sick of Cook County. I have watched my neighborhood go from a nice quiet one to one that has gang activity and is mostly illegal aliens.
Two weeks is all I have left!!
Like Obamy is going to listen to these GOP senators. The little wannabee dictator doesn't believe has to listen to anyone who doen't go along with his agenda, that is to destroy America. There is only one way to stop this communist, that is to remove this traitor from office.
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I think the best way for the states to send a loud & clear message to this corrupt anti-American administration is to round up all the illegals that this administration wants us to support and send them all up to DC, let's just see how their taxpayers like having to support people who have no right to be here in the first place and cut off all federal funds to the sanctuary cities. Problem solved.
We not only have got to demand the government doing away with sanctuary cities but the churches aiding and abeting these freeloaders.Here in Conway,SC our catholic church sponsored the Mexican Consulate to come here and teach these illegal aliens how to screw the taxpayers.The best part is the nun that works for the church is a member of la raza and when I contacted the liberal newspaper and some politicians they didn't lift a finger to stop the horde.
Homeland Security is a joke. Illegal aliens are a direct threat to the security of our country. Since the Department of Homeland Security won`t do their job they need to be abolished starting with the TSA. Course they are to busy playing with granny`s diapers and feeling up little girls. What a joke they are.