Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:59:03 PM
The boss is all over an interview of Janet Napolitano on CNN
this weekend, in which the Secretary of Homeland Security — the
department that secures our borders — blithely asserts that illegal
immigration is not a criminal offense.
Hint to the DHS Secretary: We don’t toss people in prison for losing
civil lawsuits. The penal code makes illegal immigration a crime,
one which Napolitano’s department is supposed to investigate and
prosecute. One might think that a person put in charge of the
Department of Homeland Security would have familiarized herself with
this particular law after having been in the position for several
months.
But of course, Napolitano knows that illegal immigration is a crime. She and the administration she serves don’t want
to enforce that law; they want to pretend it doesn’t exist. The DHS
seems a lot more concerned about the danger of American combat veterans
returning home than they do illegal aliens crossing the borders, which
speaks volumes about the political bent of the Obama administration.
The actual penal code [USC]
8 USC Sec. 1325, TITLE 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY CHAPTER 12 - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
SUBCHAPTER II - IMMIGRATION Part VIII - General Penalty Provisions
Sec. 1325. Improper entry by alien