Immigration Laws Aren’t Being Enforced

Border Agent: Immigration Laws Aren’t Being Enforced

 

02/05/2016  By shawn 

 
The president of the National Border Patrol Council testified Thursday before the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary, claiming that the Obama administration’s approach to enforcing border security was in serious need of reform.

“Immigration laws today appear to be mere suggestions,” Agent Brandon Judd said at the hearing. “There are little or no consequences for breaking the laws and that fact is well known in other countries.  If government agencies like DHS or CBP are allowed to bypass Congress by legislating through policy, we might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether."

Judd told House representatives that under recent changes made by the Department of Homeland Security, illegal immigrants were no longer being deported in an efficient manner. In fact, he said, many of them weren’t even being tracked by federal authorities. As long as the immigrants meet two criteria: no felony convictions and a claim to have been in the U.S. since January of 2014, border agents were being instructed to release them back into the wild.

“The operative word in this policy is ‘claim,’” Judd said. “The policy does not require the person to prove they have been here which is the same burden placed on them during deportation proceedings. Instead, it simply requires them to claim to have been here since January of 2014."

In other words, Obama’s version of immigration enforcement comes down to theater and nothing more. He’s stretched prosecutorial discretion beyond the breaking point, he’s defied a federal judge’s orders to put a stop to his amnesty declaration, and he has presided over a systematic weakening of our border security.  

Despite being faced with a steady stream of unaccompanied minors for the last two years, Obama has actually cut away many of the resources Border Patrol agents need to secure the United States. When this president was sworn into office, he promised to faithfully execute the laws of the U.S. Not only has he failed to live up to that vow, he has used the majority of his presidency in an ongoing attempt to thwart the laws of the U.S. If we were talking about minor infractions of political procedure, that would be one thing, but we’re talking about the security of this nation. We’re talking about a demographic shift that could forever change the meaning of American culture. We’re talking about chipping away at our own sovereignty. The stakes couldn’t be higher, and here’s hoping that Americans won’t forget that as we move closer to picking our next president. 

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