Senators to Obama, DHS: Stop ignoring illegal alien sanctuaries
- Jim Kouri Saturday, November 26, 2011


With a Justice Department fiercely focusing on taking legal action against state laws that help to combat illegal aliens and crimes they commit, a group of U.S. Senators is asking the Obama Administration to stop ignoring local ordinances that undermine federal laws by offering undocumented aliens sanctuary.

Two cities were recently added to the growing list of so-called sanctuary cities that protect illegal—even criminal—aliens from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents: Washington, D.C., and New York City.

The fact that the President of the United States lives in a location officially designated a sanctuary from the President’s own administration has reached the level of absurdity, according to former police commander and homeland security specialist Sid Franes.

“Doesn’t anyone in the mainstream media see the anti-American, pro-Mexican leanings of the current White House occupants? There should be moral outrage that federal agencies that deal with illegal aliens don’t have authority to enforce federal immigration laws, thanks to Mayor Gray’s executive order,â€