I'm sure by now everyone should be quite familiar with all of the many claims coming from just about any Democrat you wanna name, including our genius Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, about how it is that our southern border has never been more secure that it is today. But apparently, we seem to have more than a few in law enforcement who do not agree with that brilliant assessment. One of those is Rockingham County, N.C. Sheriff Sam Page, who told reporters on Thursday that "our borders are unsecured" and he faces the same challenges from illegal aliens as do his colleagues in our border states.
"In the United States, our borders are unsecured," Page said at a press conference held by Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and David Vitter (R-La.) and Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.) to respond to what’s being called the "Gang of 8’s" comprehensive immigration legislation which was unveiled Thursday and includes a pathway to citizenship. "I can’t understand why the representatives in Washington cannot figure it out," said Page, who is also the co-chairman of the National Sheriffs Association’s Immigration and Border Security Committee. "It’s not secure." I’m getting really tired of these various "gangs of 8, 10, 12 or `14" that keep cropping up every now and again.
"When drug traffic and cartel members end up in Rockingham County – two to three days from the border – with weapons, drugs and money and are housed up my county, that concerns me," Page said. He added, "I am a border sheriff also – from North Carolina." Well I gotta tell ya, I'm right there with Sheriff Page regarding my confusion over what part of the border not being secure that the fools in Washington just don’t get. And I must say that I am very disappointed in my junior Senator from here in Florida, Marco Rubio, that he would be willing to attach his name to thing. This is the wrong legislation at the wrong time. It does nothing to fix the problem.
The lawmakers were joined by a large contingency of law enforcement personnel – including Chris Crane, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent -- who oppose a law that they say would virtually amount to amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and would make it impossible for them to enforce existing immigration laws. Sessions said at the press conference that the 844-page bill would put "amnesty before enforcement" and would give illegal aliens "immediate legality with the promise of enforcement." This is all just ass-backwards. Now I can understand why Democrats would be all for this, but for the life of my, I fail to see why ANY Republican would.
"We can have no confidence in future law enforcement until the current constitutional law is upheld," Sessions said. And Sheriff Page added, "We must secure our borders." And I absolutely agree with both of these guys. After all, how can you argue with anything that either of them have said? It is nothing short of pure fiction to assume that our southern border is now more secure than it has ever been. That’s just plain nuts. Anyone who makes that claim is a liar! If anything, it's 100 time more porous than at any point in our history. Seems we have politicians on both sides of the political aisle who are very busy trying to convince us as being true something that we know to be a myth!
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