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

Senator McCain - Enforce Our Immigration Laws...

June 24, 2013

Sen. John McCain

Senator,

There was a time when I supported you.  I was one of those who voted for you when you ran for the office of President.  But upon seeing what you have come to espouse in the years that have passed since then, you have lost my support.  You have defended the actions of a president and his administration that are, by all objective, CONSTITUTIONAL standards, indefensible.

And now you have joined the open borders crowd in complete disregard for your own Arizona constituents, and for the rest of us as well.  To make matters worse, you have evidently instructed your staff to ignore all incoming phone calls from constituents who have the temerity to question you and the rest of the so-called “Gang of Eight” oligarchs who have decided that you alone know what is best for this country with regard to enforcing our immigration laws and strengthening our borders.

We believe in enforcing our laws.  We have seen from previous amnesties what transpires.  We have over 20 MILLION CITIZENS who have been been pushed out of the workforce in favor of illegals who will work for illegal wages with no benefits; your first responsibility is to THOSE CITIZENS, not the 12 million plus illegals who CHOSE to live in the shadows.  You have no obligation to bring them out of the shadows - unless it is for the purpose of enforcing our immigration laws.  Your proposed “immigration reform” is a slap in the faces of the 4 million immigrants who are patiently complying with our immigration laws to become productive CITIZENS of this nation, and placing all power to strengthen our borders solely into the hands of Sec. Napolitano, who has already declared that our borders are sufficiently strong for the purposes of the administration, does nothing to strengthen the language of your proposed legislation.

Enough is enough.

Enforce our laws as your oath of office requires you to do - or step down to make room for someone who will.

A Constitutional Constructionist for National Sovereignty.