Proposed McCain Bill Would Criminalize Murietta/Vassar Patriots...

John McCain Strikes again with the introduction of the CREST Act, which hires 150 more attorneys to represent "unaccompanied refugee minors" (remember, the administration has banned the use of the word, "alien") to insure that their case is "properly and fully adjudicated" in a to-be-created juvenile UAC immigration court, hires 100 more "asylum officers," INCREASES the number of children from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who can be processed in-country, and, oh yeah, CRIMINALIZES what happened in Murietta, where citizens (and border patrol officers who refused to carry out illegal orders) prevented unaccompanied alien children from being processed and kept at tax payer expense at a local DHS facility. Here is the actual text of the Act concerning this soon-to-be crime:

(A) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 27 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:

‘‘§ 556. Unlawfully hindering immigration, border, or
customs controls

‘‘(a) ILLICIT SPOTTING.—Any person who knowingly transmits to another person the location, movement, or activities of any Federal, State, or tribal law enforcement agency with the intent to further a Federal crime relating to United States immigration, customs, controlled substances, agriculture, monetary instruments, or other border controls shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.

‘‘(b) DESTRUCTION OF UNITED STATES BORDER CONTROLS.—Any person who knowingly and without lawful authorization destroys, alters, or damages any fence, barrier, sensor, camera, or other physical or electronic device deployed by the Federal Government to control the border or a port of entry, or otherwise seeks to construct, excavate, or make any structure intended to defeat, circumvent or evade any such fence, barrier, sensor camera, or other physical or electronic device deployed by the Federal Government to control the border or a port of entry—

‘‘(1) shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both; and 

‘‘(2) if, at the time of the offense, the person uses or carries a firearm or, in furtherance of any such crime, possesses a firearm [such as happened in Vassar, MI, when they protested the possible use of a facility to house UACs - added], shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

‘‘(c) CONSPIRACY AND ATTEMPT.—Any person who attempts or conspires to violate subsection (a) or (b) shall be punished in the same manner as a person who completes a violation of such subsection.’’

While this section is, ostensibly, geared toward human traffickers, its terms can be applied equally as well to those who try to prevent the DHS from bringing UACs into a community as was done in Murietta, CA, and Vassar, MI.

This bill has a $1 billion price tag, and does absolutely nothing to improve or increase border security.

http://www.flake.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/368efc27-4bd9-489b-aea4-7ffb4ce3ca26/mdm14517.pdf