Sacramento County Sheriff Scott
R. Jones eloquently appeals to President Barack H. Obama in regards to a recent
tragedy his department suffered when one of his officer was shot and killed by an
“Illegal Immigrant”. This same individual actually killed two police officers
during the incident, with one being from another nearby city. This “illegal immigrant”
had been caught and deported numerous times before he committed his horrible
crimes; and taking the lives of these officers and also shooting a civilian in the face.
I hope you will take the time
to listen to the words offered by Sheriff Scott R. Jones to the president and if
you think that they are important, that you will consider sharing his words with
others within your sphere of influence.
Best
regards,
Ronald L.
Kirkish
November 22, 2014
Before President Barack Obama’s
unilateral and unconstitutional Executive order relating to immigration reform,
which is essentially a form of amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants,
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones had a few words to
say.
Sheriff Jones recorded his message and posted it to Youtube, where it has since gone viral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UFyEnMsUUmY
The Sheriff begins his message
by talking about the four-times deported illegal immigrant with an extensive criminal record that shot and killed two Sheriff’s deputies (http://conservativetribune.com/obama-helping-illegal-cop-killer/), one of which
was one of his own, which he says is indicative of the need for immigration
reform.
Although Jones says that
Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, share plenty of blame for not passing
an immigration reform bill, he reserves his harshest criticism for Obama, saying
“only you are singularly responsible” for the broken immigration policy that we
currently have, due to the “hands-off” policies that have been put in place by
DHS and their subsidiaries.
Speaking of DHS and Border
and Customs agents, Jones said “They don’t need a raise to improve morale in
that organization, they need to be allowed to do their jobs, and carry out their
mission to keep America safe.”
“You are the only person who
can impress upon Congress the urgency of reform.
Simply stated, you are the
only singular person in this country who can advance or adopt meaningful
immigration reform.
By that definition then, it is your singular failure alone
as to why we do not yet have reform, why America continues to be at risk, and
new crimes and new victims are mounting each and every day, in every single
state.”
“In California, we have a
very large, and very productive, undocumented population. Unfortunately, that
also necessarily means we have a large undocumented population that chooses
crime as a way of life, that chooses to victimize others, including in many
instances, other undocumented persons who are often unwilling to call us for
help.”
“Like their American
criminal counterparts, they commit murders, sexual assaults, kidnaps, thefts,
engage in violent gang activity, and murder police officers. The problem I
have, is I can’t tell which ones are good and which ones are evil, and neither
can you. By their very definition, they are undocumented, untracked, untraced,
and unaccounted for. There is no way to know which of the 12 million
undocumented persons we have in this country are good or
bad.”
“This is not about racism.
It is about an increasingly violent and uncertain world in which we are
inadequately protected.”
“Deferred action, or
amnesty, is deferring this crisis. It is not reform, it is simply giving up,
and it does nothing to make America, or the undocumented population, any
safer.”
“No matter what eventual
pathway to immigration reform is chosen, there can be no conceivable resolution
that does not involve securing our borders. No matter what else is done or
decided, for any facet of immigration reform to work, our borders must be
secured. So what possible reasons could there be for not starting on this
immediately?”
“If nothing else, it would
be a gesture of good faith to the American people, to demonstrate that you truly
care about immigration reform and keeping us safe from everyone, and not just
Mexican nationals, but everyone, who can now chose to simply enter our country
at will, secure in the knowledge that there will be no consequences, if they are
discovered.”
“An American patriot, Ronald
Reagan, once told Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘tear down this wall’,
to preserve democracy and secure safety and freedom for a nation. Mr.
President, I’m asking you to build up that wall, for the very same
reasons.”
Sheriff Jones ends his video
by calling on every other law enforcement, political, and community leader to
send similar video letters to the President, urging him to secure the border
first while pursuing meaningful immigration reform.
The Sheriff is absolutely
right, and he should be thanked for taking a brave stand, and saying what needs
to be said. Our country certainly does need reform to our immigration laws,
beginning with border security, and only then contemplating ways in which to
legalize some of the illegal population.
Obama talks about how there
is no more time to waste, and action must be taken soon. If that is the case,
perhaps he should step back and allow the new Congress to actually work on
reforming immigration legislatively, instead of making the situation worse by
unconstitutionally taking unilateral half-measures that don’t address the
fundamental roots of the problem.
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