Chertoff just shut up and do your job!

Cabinet officials were not so polite. As Bush was meeting with senators, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff adamantly defended the administration's record on border security. His department is on track to hire 18,000 additional Border Patrol agents and complete 370 miles of fencing along the southern border by the end of next year, he said. He added that a series of workplace raids in recent weeks has yielded more controversy among immigrant rights groups than praise from conservative critics.- Washington Post

Well, Mr. Chertoff as a United States taxpayer let me add my appreciation for the efforts of you and the Department of Homeland Security are doing in conducting raids to remove fugitive illegal aliens as happened recently in New Haven Connecticut. Let me further add that you just shut up and DO THE JOB YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO which is to stop the illegals from coming into the country in the first place and not push the Bush/McCain/Kennedy/Graham amnesty plan.

Fear and loathing in New Haven

Earlier this week the city of New Haven Connecticut officially started to condone law breaking by making New Haven a "Sanctuary City" for illegal immigrants and even offered them official cards so that they could use city services and conduct other business transactions. Two days later ICE officials conducted raids that resulted in the arrest of 31 illegal immigrants. New Haven's mayor DeStefano and those who support continued ignoring of U.S. Immigration laws where shocked that the ICE agents might actually enforce the laws that are written. Well, I was shocked too that Homeland Security is finally starting to enforce our laws. That is what is supposed to happen and this is the right way to do it. I agree with those who say we just can't round up twelve million illegals in this country overnight.But, these 12 million did not just come here overnight either. Many came in groups of ten, twenty etc.. or over stayed their visa's and that is how they should be arrested and deported. There are consequences for breaking our laws and the sympathy arguments by the pro illegal groups do not justify lack of respect for U.S. laws. Here is the money quote:

"There is truly no safe haven for fugitive aliens,' said Marc Raimondi, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal agency that conducted the raid."

My sentiments exactly! There are millions of people currently outside of the country who would gladly come in LEGALLY to work and take the place of the illegals in places like New Haven if those in Washington would come up with the mechanism for them to do it. You don't have to and should not reward illegals here with amnesty. In the meantime enforce our immigration laws as ICE did in New Haven have this week. And what about those businesses that hired them? Yeah enforcment of our laws should raise the fear level of those who break them. Let's hope the Federal Government does more enforcment

Another death by illegal immigration.

I hope New Haven, Connecticut Mayor Destefano who just made New Haven a "Sanctuary City" for illegal immigrants read this story in the city's local paper. Here are the money quotes:

"New Haven man who may be an illegal immigrant is being held in lieu of $1 million bail for the vehicular death of West Haven minister Alan B. Broome, whom state police say he hit Feb. 5 while driving the wrong way on Interstate 91. "
Israel Quintero, 29, of 981 Ella Grasso Blvd., was released from Yale-New Haven Hospital Monday morning and was immediately arrested for second-degree manslaughter while intoxicated and a host of other charges, said state police Lt. J. Paul Vance.
"We believe he’s here improperly," Vance said."

Improperly? Lieutenant Vance! How about illegally! Or maybe that's offensive to the pro illegal advocates in New Haven and Mayor Destefano

"Alan Broome’s wife, Renee Broome of West Haven, became angry Monday when she heard the man who allegedly killed her husband of nine years may not be a legal citizen.
"I’m shocked. I’m really shocked. When I heard he was here illegally, it put more fuel on the fire. Everybody has the right to be here, but do it the legal way. He took my life from me, my livelihood, my spiritual partner," Renee Broome said of her husband."

I wonder if Mayor Destefano just looks upon the death Alan Broome as part of the cost of having illegal immigrants in New Haven. With his approval of the Sanctuary policy he will certainly being seeing more of them and maybe more deaths of legal Connecticut citizens.