Thread: Watch: Sacramento County sheriff calls out Obama on immigration

By Kale Williams
Updated 8:47 pm, Wednesday, November 19, 2014



In an eight-minute video letter to President Obama posted on YouTube, Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones minces no words as he calls out the commander-in-chief for his inaction on immigration reform.

Jones was motivated to make the video after federal authorities revealed that a man suspected of killing two deputies during a shooting rampage in Sacramento and Placer counties on Oct. 25 had been deported twice to Mexico and had a drug conviction, according to the Associated Press.

While Jones did not go as far as to blame the president for the deputies’ deaths, he did — while sitting behind a desk, staring into the camera and addressing the president directly — put the onus for instigating meaningful immigration reform squarely on Obama.

“Only you are singularly responsible for the hands-off policy that exists within Homeland Security and its subsidiaries, including the Customs and Border Protection,” Jones said to Obama in the video. “They don’t need a raise to improve morale, they need to be allowed to do their job.”

Obama is expected to unveil an executive order Thursday that could legitimize the status of millions of immigrants, igniting a showdown with congressional Republicans who call it an illegal amnesty.

Jones makes clear in the video that he is aware of the important role immigrants play in California. But, according to the sheriff, his department has been asked to try to discern law-abiding people from criminals, an impossible task without proper documentation, as he frames it.

“This is not about racism,” Jones said in the video. “It is about an increasingly violent and uncertain world in which we are inadequately protected.

“There is no way to know which of the 12 million undocumented people in this country are good or bad,” he continued. “By their very definition, they are undocumented. Untracked, untraced and unaccounted for.”

Jones also calls on every “law enforcement, political and community leader” to make a similar video directed at the president, in an attempt to urge him into action.

“Make immigration reform a priority. Not next year, not for the next president (and) not for a talking point in the next round of elections,” Jones said. “Have the political courage to do what it is that only you can do.”

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“There is no way to know which of the 12 million undocumented people in this country are good or bad,” he continued. “By their very definition, they are undocumented. Untracked, untraced and unaccounted for.”

Jones also calls on every “law enforcement, political and community leader” to make a similar video directed at the president, in an attempt to urge him into action.

“Make immigration reform a priority. Not next year, not for the next president (and) not for a talking point in the next round of elections,” Jones said. “Have the political courage to do what it is that only you can do.”

Am I reading this wrong or does it sound like this guy actually support Obama's amnesty for illegals?