The White House is berating Republicans for failing to pass the Gang of Eight’s 2013 legislation, a bill that would have protected sanctuary cities thanks to an amendment from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). In other words, passing Obama’s preferred illegal immigration overhaul would have done nothing to prevent Steinle’s killing because it would have allowed criminal aliens to stay in the country and emboldened city politicians to keep dangerous sanctuary policies in place. Further, the legislation did nothing to boost interior enforcement or impact the criminal alien problem prevalent in cities around the country.
“We aren’t even scratching the surface on the criminal illegal alien problem in the United States,” ICE union President Chris Crane said during a phone call with reporters in 2013 when the Gang of Eight legislation was being introduced and debated on Capitol Hill. “There are people coming here for this to be a land of opportunity and there are people coming here because the United States for them is a target of opportunity. We believe there is a very disproportionate number of criminals coming into the United States. That conversation is almost completely absent from this entire public conversation about what’s happening.”
“It’s just another part of this debate that gives us this concern that this is all about politics and not about really fixing the problems that we face within our broken immigration system,” he continued, “and providing for what is best for everyone is best for America to include and, most importantly, public safety.”
The Obama administration claims resources are being focused on felons, not families, but the opposite is true.
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