Ted Poe: “According to a Federal judge in Texas, our government is ``completing the criminal mission'' of human traffickers ``who…”

“According to a Federal judge in Texas, our government is ``completing the criminal mission'' of human traffickers ``who are violating the border security of the United States'' and assisting a ``criminal conspiracy in achieving its illegal goals.'' Here is how ICE is complicit in aiding and abetting human smuggling: A smuggler is paid to bring children into the United States. The smuggler then is apprehended by ICE and prosecuted, but the criminal act is completed when ICE personally delivers the migrant child to the parent who has instigated the crime. If the parent is also illegally in the United States, ICE neither deports the parent nor the child. The Federal judge chastised the Department of Homeland Security for not enforcing the law and compares this nonenforcement on the border to ``taking illegal drugs or weapons it has seized from smugglers and delivering them to the criminals who solicited their illegal importation'' into the United States. Mr. Speaker, this administration, with its policy of open borders and blatant refusal to enforce the law, is complicit in the crisis at the southern border. The timing is not a coincidence. The surge of foreign nationals illegally entering the United States all began when the President planted the seed for executive amnesty in a 2012 Rose Garden speech. In this speech, he announced his policy of unilateral administrative amnesty for minors.…”