DHS Is Smuggling Illegals Across the US Border

[lowbeyond]

http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/19/dh...grant-parents/

umm....

court order at the link...

Judge: DHS delivering young illegals caught at border to illegal immigrant parents
12:37 PM 12/19/2013

A case out of Texas has a federal judge asking just which side of the law the Department of Homeland Security is working for.

United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas Brownsville Division Andrew S. Hanen rebuked DHS for helping to deliver an illegal immigrant minor detained at the border with her human smuggler to her illegal immigrant mother living in Virginia.

Homeland Security successfully complet[ed] the mission of the criminal conspiracy to smuggle the child across the border to her parent, the judge wrote in an order issued on Dec. 13.

The mother, Patricia Elizabeth Salmeron Santos, had agreed to pay $8,500 to have human smugglers bring her child from El Salvador to Virginia.

The smuggler, Mirtha Veronica Nava-Martinez, was arrested and the child detained at a Texas border checkpoint when they were caught trying to use a birth certificate that belonged to Nava-Martinezs daughter.

Nava-Martinez, a resident alien, also had a prior felony for food-stamp fraud in 2011.

Despite this setback, the goal of the conspiracy was completed thanks to the actions of the United States Government, Hanen wrote. This Court is quite concerned with the apparent policy of the Department of Homeland Security (hereinafter DHS) of completing the criminal mission of individuals who are violating the border security of the United States.

Customs and Border Protection agents stopped the Defendant at the border inspection point. She was arrested, and the child was taken into custody. The DHS officials were notified that Salmeron Santos instigated this illegal conduct, the judge continued. Yet, instead of arresting Salmeron Santos for instigating the conspiracy to violate our border security laws, the DHS delivered the child to her thus successfully completing the mission of the criminal conspiracy. It did not arrest her. It did not prosecute her. It did not even initiate deportation proceedings for her. The DHS policy is a dangerous course of action.

This was the fourth case with the same factual situation this court has had in as many weeks, Hanen wrote.

In each of those cases, Hanen explained, illegal immigrant minors whose illegal immigrant parent or parents were paying human smugglers to bring them into the United States detained prior to arriving at their destination were delivered to their illegal immigrant parents by DHS.

The judge noted that in all four cases, the American taxpayer ended up on the hook for the final delivery.

In all cases when the Government apprehended some of the traffickers, the Government transported the children across the country to unite them with a parent (or parents) who was in the country illegally. In one situation, the Government flew a child to multiple locations in different parts of the United States. The taxpayers of the United States suffer the expense of delivering these minors, Hanen wrote.

This is an absurd and illogical result. The DHS could reunite the parent and child by apprehending the parent who has committed not one, by at least two different crimes, he continued.

The judge added that the failure by DHS to enforce current United States law is concerning because illegal activities of this kind help fund drug cartels. It also undermines the deterrent effect of the nations immigration laws and lowers the moral of the men and women risk their lives to enforce the law, he wrote.

The order comes as Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions and the union representing ICE officers and staff have been sounding the alarm about lack of immigration enforcement at DHS, with the Alabama lawmaker recently issuing a Timeline of Administrative Non-Enforcement of Federal Immigration Law.

DHS did not immediately respond to request for comment.

[Fromk]

And people all over are outraged that our sheriffs aren't enforcing the gun laws. Look at the wonderful example the federal government is setting.

[Zundfolge]

DHS smuggles illegals into the country.
ATF smuggles guns out of the country.

We are truly a lawless nation unmoored from its founding ... and from logic or reason.

[lowbeyond]

I am left to wonder...if the government does not care about its own laws.... why should I ?

[merl]

Because they will choose to selectively enforce them when you break them.

[lowbeyond]

yea i get that.

but i suppose what i am getting at.. Is Fear the only reason ? If so it is a pretty piss poor one.

[Ranger353]

But no main stream media is talking about this story. That is what torks my ass. These violations are just so bold that I would never believe them otherwise. No one will hear about them unless they look for them on the conservative blogs and internet forums. The liberals will label them false or lies and no one will question them.

I am convinced more and more each day that the downward spiral has begun and it is only a matter of time before the pot boils over, or melts and implodes.

[merl]

yea i get that.

but i suppose what i am getting at.. Is Fear the only reason ? If so it is a pretty piss poor one.

Some laws are followed out of respect, belief that it is the right way to act. Others are followed due to a belief that the law is worth following even if you don't agree; this could be fear of the resulting chaos or just a preference to order and having a strong baseline in how people will act. Others are followed out of fear of prosecution.

Of course there is always this:

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kinds of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of lawbreakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

• Floyd Ferris

[wctriumph]

TEA

III

[buckshotbarlow]

where's Micky mouse and his games when you need him?