Thread: NC: Sheriff Page gets reply from Obama re:Illegal immigration/drug cartels

PRESIDENT OBAMA RESPONDS TO NORTH CAROLINA SHERIFF SAM PAGE ON HIS CONCERNS ABOUT BORDER SECURITY, CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS
Released on May 31, 2012

Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page

[WENTWORTH, NC]—For two years now, Rockingham County North Carolina Sheriff Sam Page has been very vocal on his concerns regarding the state of our porous Southern National Borders and Criminal Illegal Aliens operating within the United States.
In August 2010, while President of the North Carolina Sheriff’s Association, Sheriff Page travelled to the Arizona Border to see firsthand the problems faced by local law enforcement in the area when dealing with these issues. While there, he worked alongside Border Security Agents and local Sheriffs Deputies whose jurisdiction is along the Border of Mexico.
Why is a North Carolina Sheriff concerned with the lax state of our National Borders? Simple… Criminal Illegal Aliens, often associated with Mexican Cartels, are easily trafficking drugs, weapons, money, and human beings across these borders and in two to three days, this smuggled contraband can be anywhere in the United States, including Rockingham County North Carolina, as we have already encountered on several occasions.
In the past eight months, Sheriff Page has travelled to Washington, D.C. four times to converse with Congressional Officials and their staffers on these troubling issues. His hope in these visits has been to try to inspire change in our Nation’s inadequate policies regarding Border Security.
Studies have shown that as much as 90% of drugs in the United States are smuggled across our Nation’s Southern Border. It would therefore seem to be common sense that making our Borders more secure would not only make American Citizens safer, but would extremely cut the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S., which eventually finds its way to “Small Town, U.S.A.”.
Sheriff Page has also reached out to President Barack Obama, mailing him a letter in 2010 and recently sending him an email addressing his concerns regarding these issues. On Thursday May 31, 2012, Sheriff Page received an emailed response from President Obama. (The President’s response is below.)
After careful review of President Obama’s response, Sheriff Page fears he that may not fully understand the massive influx of Criminal Illegal Aliens and contraband entering the U.S. daily, or is otherwise woefully misinformed on the situation.
According to the Federation for Immigration Reform (F.A.I.R.), there are over 11 million Illegal Aliens currently residing in the United States, an estimated 410,000 of which live in North Carolina. Mexican Cartels are known to operate in over 200 American cities.
Earlier this year, within one month’s time, the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office, working in conjunction with the D.E.A. and North Carolina State Highway Patrol, seized over one ton of Marijuana, a million dollars in cash and two firearms, arresting five Criminal Illegal Aliens with ties to the Mexican Cartels operating within Rockingham County, NC.
“I would challenge President Obama to do as I did, actually go to our Southern Border and see the problem for yourself. I doubt many Law Enforcement Officers in those areas would agree with your synopsis that the Border is ‘more secure than ever with more law enforcement personnel working along it than at any time in American history’ as chronicled in the President’s emailed response. More MUST be done! It’s not about politics; it’s about national security and public safety. Criminal Illegal Aliens are trafficking large amounts of drugs and other contraband across our porous Southern Borders DAILY. In two to three days, it goes from the Border to our backyards, which as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in Rockingham County North Carolina, is unacceptable to me.” – Sheriff Sam Page, Rockingham County North Carolina
Below is the text of the letter of response that was sent to Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page, from United States of America President Barack Obama.

May 31, 2012

Dear Samuel:
Thank you for writing. I have heard from many Americans concerned about immigration, and I appreciate your perspective.
Americans are rightly frustrated with our Nation’s broken immigration system, and I share that frustration. We need an immigration system that meets America’s 21st century economic and security needs, and that can only be achieved by putting politics aside and coming together to develop a comprehensive solution that continues to secure our borders, holds businesses responsible for who they hire, strengthens our economic competitiveness, and requires undocumented immigrants to get right with the law. That is how we can reaffirm our heritage as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws.
My Administration has invested an unprecedented amount of resources, technology, and manpower to secure our borders, and our efforts are producing real results. Today, our Southern border is more secure than ever with more law enforcement personnel working along it than at any time in American history. Along with significant reductions in the number of people trying to cross the border illegally, crime rates along the border are down, and we have seized more illegal guns, cash, and drugs than in years past. In addition to doing what is necessary to secure our borders, my Administration is taking action against employers who knowingly exploit people and break the law, and criminal immigrants who pose a threat to the safety of American communities.
I remain deeply committed to working in a bipartisan way to enact immigration reform that restores accountability and responsibility to our broken immigration system. The Federal Government has the responsibility to continue to secure our borders. Those immigrants who are here illegally have a responsibility to pay taxes, pay a fine, learn English, and undergo background checks before they can be considered for legalization. At the same time, we need to provide businesses a legal way to hire the workers they rely on, and a path for those workers to earn legal status. Stopping illegal immigration also depends upon reforming our outdated system of legal immigration. We should make it easier for the best and brightest immigrants to stay here and help create jobs in America. The law should also stop punishing young people who were brought to this country illegally as children by giving them a chance to stay and earn a legal status if they pursue higher education or serve in our military.
By creating a 21st century immigration system that is true to our principles, our Nation will remain a land of opportunity, prosperity, and freedom for all. To learn more about my Administration’s efforts regarding immigration, or to read our Blueprint for Immigration Reform, please visit: www.WhiteHouse.gov/issues/immigration.
For additional information and resources on current immigration and enforcement efforts, I encourage you to visit Department of Homeland Security | Preserving our Freedoms, Protecting America or call 1-800-375-5283.

Sincerely,
Barack Obama

By law, and /or supreme court ruling (and where I may be wrong, correct me) the country (we, paying taxes) make financial amends to those that someone deemed had been wronged by our grandfathers. Blacks, American Indians, etc. My families were not even here for the slave years or the Indian wars. I've never undestood how one can be responsible for the sins of dead grandfathers, anyway. It is called personal responsibiity. Now, my country wants me to make amends to children of people who criminalally crossed the border.


An illegal alien with no legal right to be driving drunk or be in America kills my son,now I'm supposed to make amends for maybe his children, amends for him bringing them here??!!


Why would not those children have to make amends to the country and me as I had to do for others that preceded me in life??

What is it that I missed about why I have to pay backwards and forwards for errors of others? What justification of fairness applies that I DO NOT understand about this country and fairness?

Those immigrants who are here illegally have a responsibility to pay taxes, pay a fine, learn English, and undergo background checks before they can be considered for legalization.

This is completely INCORRECT. America does not have any current laws that say illegal aliens are to pay taxes, a fine, learn English, undergo background checks, and be considered for legalization.

Obama is quoting a political plan that does not have the force of law and is in actual contradiction to existing American law!

W

"The law should also stop punishing young people who were brought to this country illegally as children by giving them a chance to stay and earn a legal status if they pursue higher education or serve in our military."

They were brought here illegally. The parents should not be rewarded by giving their children an easy way out. It will only encourage further illegal immigration. If it wern't for the law breaking parents, these kids would never be here. We do not need any competion for jobs. Opportunities should not be taken away from citizens because we are flooded with illegals, parents and their job seeking kids.

Kiara, I am in full agreement with your deduction. Amnesty for 2 million aliens brought undetermined aliens estimated to be 20 million, they said it would not. Can you see our inner cites and orphanages filling up with abandoned illegal alien children. They saidd that amnesty woul not encourage even more illegals coming here. So, how is it a stretch of imagination to see illegal children left with words that say,"I'm sorry my dear child, but I cannot care properly for you, these Americans will, I promise they will!"