Ben Johnson, The White House Watch
Have any of the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant Barack Obama ordered released gone on to commit other crimes? Congressional Republicans think you deserve to know the answer, Congressional Democrats think finding out violate illegal aliens’ rights, and the president is praying you’ll never find out.
The House Immigration Subcommittee voted to subpoena the names of all illegal immigrants referred to the government but not deported after the administration stonewalled releasing the records. The decision to authorize a subpoena passed on a 7-4 party-line vote.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith said, “The American people have a right to know what crimes these 300,000 illegal immigrants committed after ICE intentionally chose not detain them.” Subcommittee chairman Elton Gallegly, R-CA, added he hoped to “uncover how many of these aliens committed additional crimes.” Meanwhile, Democrats on the committee insist subpoenas are unnecessary and do not respect illegals’ rights. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan claimed the administration is “acting in good faith,” and Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California worries the subpoenas are an invasion of the illegal immigrants’ privacy.
The subpoena the vote authorizes Congressman Smith to make will demand the names of all illegal immigrants identified by the Secure Communities program but released. On August 22, Smith requested the identities of these released “harmless” illegals. When DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano testified before Congress last week, Smith gave the department until October 31 to produce the names or face a subpoena.
Obama administration officials assumed Smith was bluffing. It assumed wrong.
Perhaps the most unremarked issue in the subpoena drama is the fact that the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 illegal immigrants to escape deportation. DHS admitted last week, of the 696,000 illegal immigrants local officials referred to immigration, it deported only 126,000 (although it says some turned out to be naturalized citizens).
Assuming the lower number is correct, that is the equivalent of a city the size of Pittsburgh circulating through the body politic. These illegals have already made contact with the law once, but the Left decided their infraction was insufficiently lethal to merit deportation (the penalty demanded by the law). By releasing them, the administration taught them the ease with which they may escape our legal strictures and bred contempt for their temporary homeland.
Tracking those several hundred thousand illegals may prove difficult. In a letter to Smith Wednesday, Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security Nelson Peacock wrote….
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Obama should be impeached.
Why? He's illegal he has no rights. Kick him back to Kenya where dad was from, families should alwasy stay together. Problem solved!
No. Obama should be arrested and tried for Treason, Bribary and other High crimes and misdemeanors and, if convicted, executed.
obozo should be hung.
First, he has to be ARRESTED, we don't want it to be a lynching!!
ILLEGALS HAVE NO RIGHTS…NOTE TO DEMOCRATS!
I AGREE ILLEGALS HAVE NO RIGHTS………
They have the right to play dead and vote Democrat, using the name of a deceased American.
"Democrats on the committee insist subpoenas are unnecessary and do not respect illegals’ rights."
What BS!! Illegals HAVE no rights! They're illegal invaders. When is the administration going to do right by Americans? Never? That's what I'm afraid of.
Illegals have more rights in America than Americans do. And that's not just Mexicans, but all races, especially muslims. That's part of Obama's plan.
Just goes to prove how deep the divide is between Repubilicans and Democraps…law respecting vs lawless.
These ILLIGALS are criminals to begin with and all there names should have been published by the press when they were released. No subpoena should be necessary. Since they are illigal I agree with the comments, "THEY HAVE NO RIGHTS"!
ILLEGALS HAVE NO RIGHTS, BECAUSE THEY'RE ILLEGAL, PERIOD!!!! NONE whatsoever!! That goes for ALL 3rd world garbage invaders!!
WHY did you have to pick Pittsburgh, WE don't want them, either!!!! Send them to Chicago with the rest of the libtard garbage!
Or send them to Mexifornia. They already own the southern part of the state and the libtard politicians are playing up to them for their votes. It's no wonder that it's going broke which is what will happen to any other state that caters to them and the uber left. Live and learn people. This is what the extreme left looks like. And for the rest of the real Americans, lock and load.
Failure to enforce the laws, regardless of the circumstances, is reason enough to impeach those who made the release decision; whether President Obama, Eric Holder, and/or others. If one law is nulified by a politician or sworn law officer, all laws are subject to the same treatment. This anarchy. Return our Constitutional government, where illegal still means illegal and crimes are punished IAW the current laws.
Why, with that many illegals running around in Our Great Country, that's enough to build an army. Nothing of any good for America will come out of this obama administration. Stay alert and stay focused.
I and other patriots from all of the other states, have been fighting the cartels and the Illegals for the past 2 yrs. We are ready, and focused. We know exactly who and what to watch. La Raza, Mecha, Maldef and Naleo. All are planning revolution if Obuma doesn't do Amnesty. We watch and we wait. Not long to go. Soon my friend, soon.
Don't worry, you will find them at the voting polls.
Not in Texas need a photo ID to vote here.
That's as it SHOULD be in ALL 50 states!!
BUT, first of all, there should be NO ILLEGALS or NON-Americans in OUR country, to be concerned about!!
Not to correct you viking, but to make you correct, the cartels have been producing excellent forgeries with photos for awhile now. The Tx. ID runs approx. $3K .
Yep, thats his Army, Im sure there are Muzzies in there too. After all Nov.23 they are going to gut our REAL Military. Get your self a crimson trace laser and make every bullet count.
Oboon is the one that should be jailed and convicted of treason, along with everyone connected to Oboons scam
Woah, Shani's comment was totally beat down. Deservedly so, people shouldn't be able to assert things with no basis. We should hold them accountable.
The Hispanic illegals are being used as a cover for the Muslim illegals. Before this is over, we'll have another major feat of sabotage by our sworn enemies.
mexican, muSLIME or otherwise, if they are here ILLEGALLY then they need to be LEGALLY DEPORTED! And obutthead should be THROWN BODILY FROM OUR CAPITOL AND MADE TO SWIM BACK TO KENYA! HE AND HIS FAT ASSED UGLY BUCK TOOTHED AMERICA AND AMERICAN HATING BITCH BOTH! See how far they’d get if they were forced to swim to the country of his ill gotten birth! Too bad his stupid mother didn’t abort his sorry ass when she had the chance!
Jail the whole bunch and while we are at jail obummer and crew.
You're right, but start with them first, then soros, then the rest of the garbage!!
too bad the media wasn't censored http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/
Dear American Taxpayer
For only the second time in my adult life, I am not ashamed of my country.
I want to thank the hard working American people for paying $242 thousand
dollars for my vacation in Spain ..
My daughter Sasha, several long-time family friends, my personal staff
and various guests had a wonderful time.
Honestly, you just haven't lived until you have stayed in a $2,500.00
per night suite at a 5-Star luxury hotel.
Thank you also for the use of Air Force 2 and the 70 Secret Service personnel
who tagged along to be sure we were safe and cared for at all times.
Air Force 2 only used 47,500 gallons of jet fuel for this trip
and carbon emissions were a mere 1,031 tons of CO2.
These are only rough estimates, but they are close.
That's quite a carbon footprint as my good friend Al Gore would say,
so we must ask the American citizens to drive smaller,
more fuel efficient cars and drive less too,
so we can lessen our combined carbon footprint.
I know times are hard and millions of you are struggling to put food on the table
and trying to make ends meet.
I do appreciate your sacrifice and do hope you find work soon.
I was really exhausted after Barack took our family on a luxury vacation in Maine a few weeks ago.
I just had to get away for a few days!
Cordially,
Michelle Obama
P.S.
Thank you as well for the $2 BILLION trip to India we recently went on.
Love ya, mean it.
P.S.S. We also had a great, great time in Hawaii …..
Remember the 2012 election is not too far away!! It's you little people who make our lives so wonderful.
Garbage is, as garbage does!!
"Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California worries the subpoenas are an invasion of the illegal immigrants privacy."
Well its nice to know illegal criminals have privacy rights but the citizens do not. If I denounce my citizenship can I be free again?
We the people need to act at the next election. If everyone voted against Obama then we could clean house. Its up to us the people and our friends to chang the direction we are headed in. I know all dems are not on Obamas bandwangen so with their help and all others we can over do him and his evil ways.
One of two things will happen: 1) Obama will sign off on Amnesty guaranteeing his getting 20+million votes plus La Raza supporters (203 million), the 20-25% of the electorate that are uber left wing, the unions like SEIU and the millions of benefits addicted azzholes in our country. Results: Obama wins.
2) Obama realizes he has no chance of winning, so as his mentor (Saul Alynski) taught him, create an environment that results in major rioting (sound familiar?), chaos and anarchy. Then declare a State of Emergency. Results: No elections=Obama wins.
Welcome to Amerika and the new reality.
Sorry, I meant to type 2-3 million not 203 million La Raza retards.
FOR SOME REASON OR ANOTHER THE ILLIGEALS ARE GETTING MORE CARE AND NURTUREING THEN THE WORKING MAN. IF THEY WANT TO BECOME CITIZENS, LET THEM TAKE A NUMBER LIKE THOSE BEFORE THEM.