President Barack Obama's new homeland security secretary is offering his first public hints at executive action the administration might take on immigration, suggesting changes to a much-criticized program that runs the names of people booked for local crimes through a federal immigration database.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretly assembled a terrorist “hands off” list that permitted individuals with terrorist ties unfettered entrance into the United States, according to document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa).
Federal authorities have rejected California's proposed design for a driver's license for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, saying it is not distinguishable enough for security purposes from permits given to citizens.
[In the following video Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach explains how the Obama Administration is giving administrative amnesty to illegal alien criminals. The video also shows Vice President Biden publicly stating that "illegal aliens living in the shadows I believe are already American Citizens."]
In the Denver regional office - which covers all of Colorado and Wyoming - there were 10,732 ICE contacts with illegal aliens in 2013, but not all were criminals.
Of the 6,586 "Criminal encounters," 2,983 were released or 45%.
The Obama administration has unilaterally eased restrictions on asylum seekers with loose or incidental ties to terror and insurgent groups, in a move one senator called "deeply alarming."
