Thread: Blowhard Chertoff/Fox News Sunday on Immigration

The guy that wouldn't know the truth if it hit him in the face was on Fox News Sunday about the Brit terror attacks. Even after the stunning defeat of the bill he continues to pretend he is on the job. What a joke! Scary that our security is in his hands!

Lou Dobbs goes nuts on The Glenn Beck Show about amnesty, Bush and Chertoff. Entertaining, you have to love both Glenn and Lou.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqFsjpDvWHg

WALLACE: Let's turn, sir, to immigration reform which the Senate killed this week. You had been lobbying for passage of this bill for months, and after it collapsed this week, you expressed your disappointment. Let's watch.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

CHERTOFF: I'm disappointed about the fact that there were some necessary tools which we needed to be able to do more than we can currently do in enforcing the law that were left on the floor of the Senate today.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: Secretary Chertoff, opponents of the bill say that you already have plenty of tools to enforce the border which you don't use.

CHERTOFF: Well, I just think that's plain wrong. First of all, in the last couple of years we have overhauled border security strategy.

We have had record numbers of removals. We have seen a significant decrease over the past year in the flow of illegals across the border. We've ended catch and release.

We're on our way to doubling the border patrol. We're building hundreds of miles of fencing and vehicle barriers. And for the first time, we're putting integrated high technology at the border.

But there's one thing we haven't been able to do. We haven't been able to require every employer to enter a system in which they check the work status of their employees and determine whether they're legal.

And without that, we don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective. And that would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem.

WALLACE: Mr. Secretary, let me try and clear up some of the contradictions between you and some of the critics of the administration's policy.

Congress passed the Secure Fence Act in October of last year, mandating construction of 700 miles of new fence along the southwest border.

Now, Congressman Duncan Hunter, who comes from that part of the world, comes from San Diego, says that, in fact, in the eight months since then, that the government has built only 13 miles of new fencing. Is that true, sir?

CHERTOFF: Well, what we've done is we are working on and will complete by September -- we'll be up to about 140 miles to 150 miles of fencing.

As anybody who's ever built a fence or a wall knows, Chris, you don't build it one mile at a time. You take a chunk, like, for example, the 35 miles at the Barry Goldwater range in Arizona.

You have to level the ground. You have to put a foundation in. You have to drive in the pillars. And then you put the fencing in. So in that case, for example, we're going to go from a handful of miles to 35 miles within a couple of months.

We're on track to get about 370 miles done by the end of '08. But I do have to say that for people who believe the answer is just fence, yesterday we discovered a tunnel. So fencing is not the cure- all for the problem at the border.

We've got 40 percent of our illegals coming through the ports of entry using legal visas and overstaying. We've got people concealing themselves in vehicles coming through the ports of entry. I've seen this myself.

I think the fence has come to assume a certain kind of symbolic significance which should not obscure the fact that it is a much more complicated problem than putting up a fence which someone can climb over with a ladder or tunnel under with a shovel.

WALLACE: Mr. Secretary, we have about a minute left. Clearly, what came out of this debate and the failure of immigration reform is that a lot of people in this country don't trust you, don't trust the government, to enforce the border.

So why not take the lesson from this failure and go for enforcement first, resubmit the president's agreement to spend $4.4 billion on new enforcement?

You say you don't have some tools when it comes to employer verification. Why not resubmit all of those and challenge the Democrats on enforcement first?

CHERTOFF: Well, Chris, first of all, anybody who says we haven't been enforcing is woefully blind to the facts. We have done more in terms -- and unfortunately, it's been some painful stuff in terms of arrests, 700 criminal cases against employers, raids involving thousands of people, unfortunate pictures of crying children. ...

WALLACE: But, Mr. Secretary, we're running out of...

CHERTOFF:... whose mothers are being...

WALLACE:I don't mean to interrupt you. I mean, are you going to submit the $4.4 billion? Are you going to resubmit the tamper- proof card? Are you going to resubmit the employer verification or not?

CHERTOFF: I think we're going to say to the members of Congress who think they have a better way that they should produce legislation and pass legislation, which they have not done for the past two years.

They've tried enforcement only. That didn't pass. We've tried comprehensive. That stalled. I think it's now time for Congress, which has the power to legislate, to make a determination about how it wants to help us solve this problem.

WALLACE: But the government, the president, is not going to submit his own plan.

CHERTOFF: Well, we've submitted a budget. We submitted a comprehensive immigration plan. We agreed on $4.4 billion which was going to be secured by the payments made by the illegals so it would not bust the budget.

In the absence of that plan, I think now those who have a better way ought to come forward with that better way. We're still going to work on our part to enforce the border using the tools that we have.

WALLACE: Secretary Chertoff, we're going to have to leave it there. We want to thank you so much for talking with us today and giving us an update on the very latest from Britain.

CHERTOFF: Good to be on, Chris.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH

The people that laid those bombs out did Bush and Chertoff a big favor! The story managed to quash the media aftermath of this defeat for the Open Borders Lobby, Sellout Senators, and Bush administration.

If it were not for the UK bomb plot story, the failed immigration bill would still be the top story today in America.

There is a long pattern forming of terrorists doing, and saying. things that benefit the Bush administration.

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There is a long pattern forming of terrorists doing, and saying. things that benefit the Bush administration.

The Europe Terror news had some smell of fish... Foiled car bomb? Burning SUV at Airport entrance? Real car bombs don't just burn the car, The whole entrance and lobby up to the check-in counter should have been wrecked! No casualty? The Gov't media complex at work here....

Right on Alipac !!!!!!!

You'll notice that Fridays are always a big day too. They try to manipulate the Sunday talk shows like Fox News Sunday and Meet the Press and This Week.

Wake up America!!!

Originally Posted by jecg_97030

CHERTOFF: Well, we've submitted a budget. We submitted a comprehensive immigration plan. We agreed on $4.4 billion which was going to be secured by the payments made by the illegals so it would not bust the budget.

That just simply does not make sense! He is saying that work cannot be done until illegals start paying their fines?

IMO, we are entering a far more dangerous time. Chertoff said he's satisfied with our security, in the wake of what happened in the UK?!

EXCUSE ME, CHERTOFF, BUT OUR BORDERS ARE OPEN AND UNDEFENDED BY APPROPRIATE NUMBERS, TERRORISTS AND CRIMINALS HAVE COME IN TO OUR NATION, AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THEY ARE!

Excuse me for shouting.

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We've got 40 percent of our illegals coming through the ports of entry using legal visas and overstaying. We've got people concealing themselves in vehicles coming through the ports of entry. I've seen this myself

Can we say interior enforcement???? Ya Think..............Lets not just ask them to show up in court...

That just simply does not make sense! He is saying that work cannot be done until illegals start paying their fines?

Well there we go. We take a 20% fee from the $25 billion in remittances that illegals will send to Mexico this year, and we'll have the $4.4 billion for beefed-up border security.

Just take 15% of the earmarks......