Obama’s Justice Department, according to Gowdy, has refused to enforce current immigration laws and defend the rights of American citizens. That’s because the Obama White House is stopping the efforts of the U.S. Border Patrol and immigration enforcement agencies, while simultaneously granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens by unconstitutional executive orders. As Gowdy explained at a recent hearing:
“Today there are over 350,000 known criminal aliens in the United States who are not detained by ICE, 350,000,” Gowdy, the chairman of the Immigration and Border Security Subcommittee, said opening a hearing examining the victims of illegal immigrant crime.
“That number may not get your attention — statistics rarely do — so I want you to think about it this way. The number of criminal aliens living in the United States, not in custody, not separated from society, it larger than the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Larger than the city of Lexington, Kentucky, larger than the city of Anaheim, California,” he asked. “Can you imagine a city the size of Pittsburgh, comprised sole of people who are here unlawfully who have also committed another crime?”
Gowdy noted that, according to ICE, between October 2011 and December 2014, ICE released criminal aliens over 100,000 times.
While America continues to struggle with the problems created by illegal aliens, Obama’s executive actions are being challenged before the Supreme Court right now. Gowdy is furious at Obama’s attorney’s deceptive arguments:
“Just yesterday the lawyer for the president was at it again, this time at the United States Supreme Court, arguing for the nonenforcement of the law, arguing for the wholesale failure to enforce the law,” Gowdy said. “And he said this: ‘The damage that would be reeked by tearing apart families.’ If you want to see that damage, Mr. Solicitor General, if you want to see what tearing apart looks like, I hope you’re watching this morning.”
The hearing also gave an opportunity to many victims who have been hurt by violent criminals who were in this country illegally. There were two mothers of children killed by illegal aliens who offered their testimony.
Thank you, Rep. Gowdy, for bolding exposing Obama’s radical amnesty agenda! It is time to secure the border now, before it’s too late!