pass the DREAM Act.
That's right, junior G-men; by passing the DREAM Act, Homeland Security won't have to worry about finding all those college kids who were brought here as toddlers by their parents. Then they can devote their resources to catching all those dangerous right-wingers, tea-partiers and returning war veterans. Then they can search more of those grandmothers at the airports.
"Ok, Grannie. Bend over and spread 'em wide."
Seriously, Janet the Jenius really said that then DHS could devote their priorities to catching and deporting criminal illegal aliens. Yet notice what Janet the J did not say. She said nothing about securing our borders to keep out more illegal alien gang members, drug and human smugglers. She said nothing about going after sanctuary cities like LA and San Francisco, who refuse to notify ICE as illegal alien gang members go through and exit their criminal justice system. Janet the J has a better solution.
Pass the DREAM Act. (I can hear John Lennon singing now.)
Under the DREAM Act, young illegal aliens could gain that famous old "Path to Citizenship if they spend two years in college or the military. The latter sounds reasonable, but has there not been a program in place for decades that foreigners could expedite their citizenship by serving in the US military? When I was in the Army in the 1960s, I served with a Greek guy who expected to gain his US citizenship after discharge. Prior to enlisting, he had been working as a UN interpreter in New York.
But of course, heh heh, he was legal to start with.
Note to the big J: How about we secure our borders and round up the criminal illegal aliens first; then we can think about things like "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" and the DREAM Act?
Perhaps she hasn't said a lot about the need to secure the border because entry across the border has been dropping sharply during the past two years. Her job is to focus on fixing what is not working, rather than to give p.r. talks about what is working.
ReplyDeleteThe DREAM Act is a great idea. Don't punish children who grew up in America by shipping them back to someplace they barely remember, where they would be fish out of water, because many years ago, their parents crossed a border illegally.
Note: If the kid has a criminal record, s/he can still be deported. Napolitano is right for once -- sort this one out, and focus her department on real dangers.