Dana Rohrabacher: “let us note we are not talking about legal immigrants. Over a million people are permitted in this country legally every…”

“let us note we are not talking about legal immigrants. Over a million people are permitted in this country legally every year. We can be very proud of that. In fact, the people most concerned about illegal immigration in this country are the million legal immigrants every year who obey the rules and stand in line and who we are slapping in the face by permitting millions of illegals to come into our country. Trying to blur the distinction between legal and illegal is not an honest way of presenting the case. The bottom line is we are only talking about illegal immigration. We are not talking about local crime. I am not in favor of having the local judiciary to enforce criminal matters that are made criminal by the Federal Government. I am, however, in favor of the Federal Government presiding over its constitutional authority and obligation to control immigration policy in this country. And if States and cities want money from the Federal Government concerning illegal immigration and the incarceration of illegal immigrants, they will have to go along and enforce that Federal law because immigration is the rightful authority of the Federal Government.”