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Congresswoman Candy Miller delivered a blistering attack on President Obama the other day for failing take the blame for the release of hundreds of illegal immigrants from Department of Homeland Security detention centers.
Here’s what Miller, the Harrison Township Republican who chairs the House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, said:
“This past week,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement released hundreds of illegal aliens in
custody saying they were using a ‘more cost effective form of supervised
release.’ When challenged about this outrageous act, the DHS secretary, Janet
Napolitano, blamed bureaucrats in the field and the White House did the same. It
seems in the Napolitano administration at DHS and in the Obama Administration at
large that the buck stops with lower-level bureaucrats.
“It is not
surprising that those lower-level bureaucrats would take such dangerous actions
since their leaders, starting with President Barack Obama and extending to his
entire cabinet, have been criss-crossing the country for the last several weeks
trying to scare the American people and federal workers about the calamity that
would happen if the sequester, which represents just 2 percent of all federal spending,
were allowed to happen. The results of these actions have clearly frightened
federal bureaucrats into making decisions that endanger the American people and
put our security at risk.
surprising that those lower-level bureaucrats would take such dangerous actions
since their leaders, starting with President Barack Obama and extending to his
entire cabinet, have been criss-crossing the country for the last several weeks
trying to scare the American people and federal workers about the calamity that
would happen if the sequester, which represents just 2 percent of all federal spending,
were allowed to happen. The results of these actions have clearly frightened
federal bureaucrats into making decisions that endanger the American people and
put our security at risk.
“This is
outrageous. The sequester was first proposed by President Obama and was passed
into law in August 2011. The President’s sequester has been pending for more
than a year and half and yet it is becoming more clear every day that his
administration has developed no plan to administer those cuts in a responsible
way. Instead, the president has been peddling threats of gloom and doom if the
sequester were to go into place to frighten the American people. In turn, it
appears those who serve in his administration are bound and determined to
deliver the gloom and doom he wants while at the same time the president and his
administration attempt to avoid any responsibility. The American people expect
and deserve better.
outrageous. The sequester was first proposed by President Obama and was passed
into law in August 2011. The President’s sequester has been pending for more
than a year and half and yet it is becoming more clear every day that his
administration has developed no plan to administer those cuts in a responsible
way. Instead, the president has been peddling threats of gloom and doom if the
sequester were to go into place to frighten the American people. In turn, it
appears those who serve in his administration are bound and determined to
deliver the gloom and doom he wants while at the same time the president and his
administration attempt to avoid any responsibility. The American people expect
and deserve better.
“U.S. House
Republicans have twice passed legislation (in the last Congress) that would have replaced the sequester
cuts with more responsible reductions in federal spending, but the U.S. Senate
refused to take action. Likewise, the president has offered no alternative cuts
and instead simply calls for ever-higher taxes to support higher federal
spending. As we have seen in Michigan over the last several years, local and
state governments across the nation have had to implement spending reductions
totaling much more than 2 percent of their spending and have done so in ways that don’t
threaten the safety of their communities. It is time for the president to get
control of his administration and do what is needed to keep this nation safe and
secure while working with the U.S. Congress to get federal spending under
control.”
Republicans have twice passed legislation (in the last Congress) that would have replaced the sequester
cuts with more responsible reductions in federal spending, but the U.S. Senate
refused to take action. Likewise, the president has offered no alternative cuts
and instead simply calls for ever-higher taxes to support higher federal
spending. As we have seen in Michigan over the last several years, local and
state governments across the nation have had to implement spending reductions
totaling much more than 2 percent of their spending and have done so in ways that don’t
threaten the safety of their communities. It is time for the president to get
control of his administration and do what is needed to keep this nation safe and
secure while working with the U.S. Congress to get federal spending under
control.”
