Right on the heels of telling illegals they “deserve fair pay” while working illegally here in the U.S. is this gem. Just when you think the decisions of this administration can’t get any stupider, they prove you wrong.
In keeping with Obama’s strange (calculated?) propensity for choosing people to serve in posts they are uniquely UN-qualified to serve in, he’s now tapped an outspoken supporter of sanctuary cities to be the head of ICE’s State and Local Coordination Office. Not to draw on one of my well-used metaphors here at ER, but this is something like hiring a child molester to babysit.
Harold Hurtt, a former police chief in Houston and Phoenix, has been hired as the director for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of State and Local Coordination.
Hurtt should be well aware of the problems facing law enforcement in these areas, since he was one of them. However, his views are a little less grounded in fact and a whole lot floating around with Obama’s idea of reality:
But as a police chief, Hurtt was a supporter of “sanctuary city” policies, by which illegal immigrants who don’t commit crimes can live without fear of exposure or detainment because police don’t check for immigration papers.
He also, during his tenure as Houston police chief, criticized ICE’s key program that draws on local law enforcement’s support.
“There’s no way you can head up an office if you don’t believe in what the office is supposed to do,” Curtis Collier of U.S. Border Watch, told the Houston Chronicle. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s primary mission is to protect the American people. If this guy believes any of these programs should not be enforced, he’s certainly going to be a very weak advocate for them.”
