Speech #1140080833

These are violent crimes. Rather than enforcing the law and making it tougher on drug cartels by keeping our border secure. the Obama administration has done exactly the opposite. Our unsecured borders make it easy for the cartels to flood our country with cheap heroin. and the administration has made it clear that officers are not to deviate from the Presidents lawless immigration policy. They are blocked from doing their job and following their oath. Just last weekand as someone who has worked closely with Federal Drug Enforcement officers and immigration officers as a Federal prosecutorCustoms and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske testified before the House Committee on Appropriations that "if you dont want to follow the directions of your superiors. including the president of the United States and the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. then you really do need to look for another job." Do you hear what he is saying there. colleagues? What he is saying is that if you want to do your job and enforce the laws as the laws are written. which we have ordered you not to do. and you go on and do it anyway. then look for another job. It is one of the most amazing things I have seen in my entire law enforcement career. ICE officersImmigration and Customs Enforcement officerswho enforce drug laws. along with immigration laws. these officers sued their supervisors. They sued their supervisors. alleging that they were being ordered to violate their oath to enforce the immigration laws of the United States by these restrictive policies. It is hard to overestimate the destruction the Obama administrations policiestheir Executive amnesty. their refusal to sufficiently fund and man the borderare causing to law enforcement. A big part of this now is the openness to heroin. methamphetamine. marijuana. and other drugs that are being imported. I take that statement by the Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection as a direct threat to those officers who want to follow their oath and do their duty. In August 2013. a dramatic event occurred that was too little appreciated. Attorney General Holder. the Attorney General of the United States. ordered Federal prosecutors not to charge certain drug offenders with offenses that carry mandatory minimum sentences that are in law.