Sanctuary City Advocate Wrong to Lead Border Patrol, Senate Homeland Security Chairman Warns
Selecting San Francisco’s former police chief to head the U.S. Border Patrol would encourage more illegal border crossings because she has a record of not enforcing federal immigration laws, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., argues.
Heather Fong advocated San Francisco’s “sanctuary city” policy of non-cooperation with federal immigration officials, Johnson said in a letter Monday to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske.
“The selection of such a candidate would send a strong message—both in the U.S. and outside of the U.S.—that enforcing our immigration laws is not a priority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection,” Johnson wrote.
His letter asks Kerlikowske to answer a series of questions by Dec. 21 focused on what the agency is looking for in a Border Patrol chief. (See the entire letter here.)
As police chief, Fong upheld San Francisco’s status as a sanctuary jurisdiction, refusing to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and protecting illegal immigrants from deportation.
Fong, 59, currently is assistant secretary of state and local law enforcement at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the parent agency of the involved border and immigration agencies. She has held the post since November 2014.
Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in a statement provided to The Daily Signal that he “strongly” advised against Fong’s selection and asked Customs and Border Protection to be transparent in its vetting process:
It is obvious from our committee’s 13 hearings on border security and from multiple visits that our borders are not secure. It is extremely important that whoever is appointed to lead the Border Patrol is as serious about this reality as our committee is.
A 32-year veteran of the San Francisco force, Fong served as chief from 2004 to 2009.
“We do not cooperate with ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] when they go out for enforcement of immigration violations of the law,” Fong told reporters in November 2008.
Fong caught heat for sending eight crack dealers who were in the U.S. illegally to halfway houses in Southern California instead of turning them over to federal immigration authorities for imprisonment or deportation.
In a press conference three months before, Fong told reporters: “We do not work on enforcing immigration laws.”
The Border Patrol position opened up when Chief Michael Fisher announced his retirement in October.
Fox News Channel last month reported Fong’s potential consideration. That spurred Kerlikowske, the Customs and Border Protection commissioner who will appoint the new chief, to release a statement saying the agency had not yet begun a search.
“It is completely false that any individual could be a potential candidate at this time,” Kerlikowske said.
But Johnson said reports about Fong’s inclusion on the department’s short list spurred Border Patrol agents to contact his staff because they were “fearful” that her selection would prevent them from doing their jobs.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last month said there would be a “revolt” in the U.S. if she takes over the Border Patrol.
“If the president brings in someone who is going to abdicate the rule of law in this country, the American people are not going to tolerate it any more,” Abbott said.
weapons and bomb vests are at the border. now someone can shoot her or blow themselves up near her
Fits right in with his ideology. Let all the invaders in that you can so that there will no longer be Americans. I look for Obama to change the name of the United States to the United Kingdom of Obama before he leaves office if he ever does.
A Country Founded by Geniuses but Run by Idiots!
If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but
not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might
live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or
to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might
live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a
check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not
to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that
was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from
owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty
F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but
not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make
you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is
run by idiots.
If an 80-year-old woman or a three-year-old girl who is confined to a
wheelchair can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman
in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head
searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but
is run by idiots.
If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions
of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his
teacher is “cute,” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class
in grade school is perfectly acceptable — you might live in a nation
that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more
government regulation and intrusion, while not working is rewarded with
Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free
cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses
but is run by idiots.
If the government’s plan for getting people back to work is to
provide incentives for not working, by granting 99 weeks of unemployment
checks, without any requirement to prove that gainful employment was
diligently sought, but couldn’t be found — you might live in a nation
that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest
big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a
wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government
forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If being stripped of your Constitutional right to defend yourself
makes you more “safe” according to the government — you might live in a
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If the media panders to your openly socialist leader while the IRS targets groups with dissenting views— you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If your government ‘cracks down’ on legal gun sales to law abiding citizens while secretly supplying illegal guns to Mexican drug cartels— you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If your local government (Chicago) outlawed gun ownership for ‘the safety of its citizens’ and now boasts the worst murder rate in the country — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
What a country!
How about we give God a reason to continue blessing America?
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government puts everyone on Heroin based on the way you talk and behave. they say you need to be medicated because your a veteran or something