Video: Policy of Administrative Amnesty for Criminals explained by Kris Kobach

KRIS KOBACH: It used to be you couldn’t get this if you had a criminal record. They’re saying if you committed your crime before the age of 18, like many gang members do, or if it’s a petty crime, then you’re okay, you can have this administrative amnesty too and by the way, petty crimes include some pretty serious things, like theft, assault, battery, possession of drugs, DUI. This administration seems to be saying no illegal alien left behind, and it’s really troubling.
 
TUCKER CARLSON: So the rest of us, silly us, are watching the Congress to see if they’ll vote to put into law amnesty but the real action is taking place in the executive branch, the President who brags about having a pen is just giving us de facto amnesty. Is that what’s going on?
 
KOBACH: That’s exactly what’s going on, Tucker. It’s amazing. In previous administrations they didn’t abuse the law like this, but this administration is either outright asking ICE agents to break the law, which they started doing in June 2012 with their so-called DREAM Act administrative amnesty, and here they’re just twisting and pushing the limits of what the law was never intended to do...
 
You would think that an administration bent on getting amnesty even though the law doesn’t allow it would at least stop short of giving it to criminals, but they’re giving it to criminals as well.

“The preponderance of the evidence demonstrates that immigration enforcement in America has collapsed. Even those with criminal convictions are being released. DHS is a department in crisis. Secretary Johnson must reject the President’s demands to weaken enforcement further and tell him that his duty, and his officers’ duty, is to enforce the law—not break it. As Homeland Secretary, Mr. Johnson is tasked with ensuring the public safety and the rule of law. But Secretary Johnson is not meeting these duties.

American citizens have a legal and moral right to the protections our immigration laws afford—at the border, the interior and the workplace. The Administration has stripped these protections and adopted a government policy that encourages new arrivals to enter illegally or overstay visas by advertising immunity from future enforcement. Comments from top Administration officials, such as Attorney General Holder’s claim that amnesty is a civil right, or Vice President Biden’s claim that those here illegally are all U.S. citizens (apparently including someone whose visa expired yesterday), demonstrate the Administration’s increasing belief in an open borders policy the American public has always rejected.

The Administration’s lawless policies have not only impaired public safety but increased economic suffering for millions of vulnerable Americans by depriving them of their jobs and wages.

Unfortunately, Congressional Democrats continue to empower this lawlessness. Republicans must work to end it.”