Thread: Trump Security Chief: I Saved Obama’s Amnesty Plan

"On Friday, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, targeted by House Democrats over President Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, made a startling admission, boasting, "I’m the best thing that happened to DACA. It is still on the books."

...A source from the meeting told The Hill that Kelly acknowledged he opposes much of the current immigration policy, begging the Democrats to change it if they felt like it: “If you don't like the laws we are enforcing, and I don't like many of them, please, please, please change the law.”

Read more here: http://www.dailywire.com/news/14536/...n-hank-berrien

That is just so disgusting. Shame on you, John Kelly.

How dare you stab our President and his Trump Supporters in the back like that cavorting around with the enemies of our nation who support illegal aliens residing in our country in brazen violation of US immigration law, stealing our jobs, depressing our wages, killing our citizens, sucking on welfare benefits, breeding phony citizens, running drugs, draining our money supply with their remittances, protesting in our streets in a country they're not even supposed to be in to begin with, illegally voting in our elections ..... ooooooh ..... SHAME ON YOU!!!!!

You are a "sick, (bad guy)".

"Please, please, please" ... RESIGN YOUR POST NOW!

GRRRRRRRRR!!!!

We need this verified 100% so we know exactly what he said. If true and accurate he should resign.

W

Yeah, the "source" is an anonymous source. So who knows what was actually said. So the Media needs to hunt this down and verify. I thought about that, but if it's not true, then Kelly needs to get to a microphone ASAP, deny it, and call these DemoQuacks blatant liars, one way or another. He shouldn't have even gone into their den to begin with or had them into his. He was still cavorting and still pandering. And, we do still have DACA.

Is Kelly a Democrat? I can't find his political affiliation. Can anyone find out?

This is the original article from the The Hill.

DHS chief gets earful from Dems on immigration

BY MIKE LILLIS AND RAFAEL BERNAL -
03/17/17 11:55 AM EDT

© Greg Nash

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly got an earful on Friday from House Democrats outraged over President Trump’s aggressive approach to immigration enforcement.

Kelly met with the Democrats in the Capitol, where the lawmakers — particularly members of the Congressional Hispanic and Asian Pacific caucuses — sounded off against Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants and his executive orders barring refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries.

Democrats questioned Kelly's handling of his department, particularly his ability to keep immigration enforcement agents in check. They were left unconvinced by his responses.

Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) called Kelly's approach "naive," saying law enforcement agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lacked the military discipline Kelly had grown accustomed to in the Marine Corps.

Democratic Caucus Chairman Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) doubled down on the fish-out-of-water criticism of Kelly, saying the secretary had at times "been dismissive" of lawmakers at the meeting "as though they were plebes or cadets."

"This is not bootcamp. These are not newly inducted members of the Marine Corps. These are experienced lawmakers who understand the law, who understand the complexities of the law and also understand the job that the secretary has to carry out the law," said Crowley.

Lawmakers also criticized Kelly for failing to provide specific policy answers when challenged.

"Secretary Kelly's answers were less than satisfactory. They were not very deep — they were sort of topline, general platitudes," said Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), vice chair of the Democratic Caucus.

Kelly, for his part, said he’s simply upholding the law, according to a source in the room. But he also emphasized that he opposes many parts of the law, pleading with the Democrats to change it.

“If you don't like the laws we are enforcing, and I don't like many of them, please, please, please change the law,” he said, according to the source.

Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.), head of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, led the charge for the Democrats, accusing the administration of disregarding due process protections and instilling fear in immigrant communities, according to the source.

Lujan Grisham said some progress was made at the meeting, citing Kelly's openness to equip ICE agents with body cameras, as proposed in a bill introduced by Rep. Yvette Clark (D-N.Y.) last week.

But Kelly said the agency did not have the money to move forward with the body cameras, an idea Democrats scoffed at.

"He mentioned that they just don't have the budget. We pushed back on that a bit," Lujan Grisham said.

She’s been up in arms since last month, when several Hispanic Democrats were barred from a briefing by officials at the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch.

Kelly did not back down, according to the source, saying he’s taken a “different philosophical” tack than his predecessor, Jeh Johnson, when it comes to border security.

When Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), Congress’s first Chinese-American lawmaker, raised concerns that racial bias has been a factor underlying deportations, Kelly rebuffed the suggestion.

"I reject just about everything you said about my people acting [with] prejudices and biases,” he said, according to the source.

"In every issue, there has been legal issues that they did what they did. But it's not because their religion or the color of their skin or their politics. … I don't report anyone, ICE doesn't deport anyone, the laws and the judges of the United States does. ... The Department of Homeland Security does not deport anyone."

Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.) took a different tone, saying Kelly's demeanor left him hopeful.

"That same pushback that everyone got and didn't like, I think he does that same pushback to the administration when it comes to DACA kids and others. Even though he was general-like in his demeanor and his attitude, that can be a very positive thing," said Vargas.

The Democrats are concerned that the administration’s new deportation approach leaves those benefitting from former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program newly vulnerable to deportations.

They're especially worried that the information DACA applicants voluntarily provided to enroll in the program — it includes an admission of being in the country illegally — could be used against them.

Kelly told lawmakers DACA information was not being used that way at the moment, but attendants to the meeting said he did not rule out the information could be used in the future.

Rep. Nannette Barragan (D-Calif.) said she believed Kelly had "left the door open" to using DACA application information for immigration enforcement purposes.

"For him to go out of his way to say, ‘We believe we could use that information but we're not,' " said Barragan.

But Kelly suggested the “dreamers” are still protected — as long as he’s in charge.

”I’m the best thing that happened to DACA,” he said, according to the source. “It is still on the books."

http://thehill.com/policy/national-s...on-immigration

"For him to go out of his way to say, ‘We believe we could use that information but we're not,' " said Barragan.

But Kelly suggested the “dreamers” are still protected — as long as he’s in charge.

”I’m the best thing that happened to DACA,” he said, according to the source. “It is still on the books."

If this is true and accurate then Gen Kelly needs to step down or be removed from his role at DHS.

W

It's a very disappointing report if the sources are telling the truth, and they may not be, I've seen other reports that phrased things much differently. And it could also be a ruse by Kelly to keep things calm until the right time. A lot is going on, more than it seems even we here at ALIPAC can keep up with. The wall is moving forward, convicted criminals are being deported, many are being deported without known criminal convictions. Sanctuary cities are under attack. Border Patrol and ICE expanding their agent numbers, conducting new training, border crossings down 40% if numbers are accurate. Big foreign drug busts all over the place. Raids everywhere. 287 g reinstated and many signing up. Police departments trying to fight the feds by not cooperating with ICE and I think losing those stances, others pledging support and signing up for formal programs to help find, report and detain illegal aliens for ICE. And much more that we don't even know about.

It's all good, so much stuff going on since Inauguration and it's only been 60 days. It takes that long to rent a house in this country and Trump and his team is out there stopping illegal immigration, fixing Obamacare and bad trade deals, and bringing our good jobs back home, fixing the tax code, working on the new budget, cutting here, expanding there, developing infrastructure programs, and still trying to make peace with Russia, make NATO pay more, build safe zones in Syria, stop North Korea, improve our trade situations with China, Mexico, Japan and others, I mean I can't even list it all in one post because there's so much I can't keep track of it!!

I'm very happy, which is not to say we must still keep the pressure on about DACA, but I believe they'll all be out of here. There's no other choice if you want to end illegal immigration in the US once and for all and that IS what Trump wants to do. He doesn't want the job theft, he doesn't want the welfare cost, he doesn't want the competition for seats in our colleges and universities, he doesn't want any of that drain or drag on our system that hurts our people and nation. He wants none of it, so .... be clear and patient but make sure the pressure is on and that he knows we want DACA over on the earliest most prudent date.

Also, NO DREAM ACT, we would expect a VETO of any DREAM ACT, make sure he knows that as well.