Session #114 · 2015–17

Speech #1140009967

In addition. Democrats refused to fund the lawful functions of the Department of Homeland Security. And this is important: The Housepassed Department of Homeland Security funding bill funds all of the lawful. statutorily authorized functions of the Department. including the immigration law enforcement component of the agencies that. under the Obama administration. has been prevented from enforcing the laws. Colleagues. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officersnow. I guess. 2 years agofiled a lawsuit against their own supervisors declaring that they were being forced to violate their oath to enforce the laws of the United States. I have never seen that. It is so bad that the ICE officers have filed a lawsuit to stop the administration from ordering them to violate plain law. Let me note that the President has already shut down the Department by ordering immigration officers and agents to violate the laws and sabotaging enforcement in a number of ways. These are direct orders of this administration. dismantling systemic enforcement of our laws. So I think the Senate Democrats and the President must answer why they believe funding Executive amnesty and unlawful immigration policies would make this country safer. They say: Well. you wont pass a Homeland Security bill like we want it. You are not making America safe. I say their policies eviscerating law enforcement are making America less safe. as the Immigration and Customs agents do. the ones who process the applicants. Ken Palinkas. the President of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council. has written that: This amnesty executed by the President will make us less safe. His amnesty makes us less safe. Passing a bill that stops his amnesty will make us more safe.
Keywords matched
immigration ICE officers Immigration

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural Security threat

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFFERSON SESSIONS
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
AL
Gender
M
Date
2015-02-24
Speech ID
1140009967
Paragraph
#4
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