Sessions Responds To GAO Report Revealing Dramatic Breakdown In Border Security
By: Blake Deshazo
Updated: January 11, 2013
"This
report demonstrates, despite the pleas of millions of Americans, the border is still not secure...
the Obama administration [has been] engaging in a sustained and reckless
dismantling of enforcement...securing our borders must remain our number
one priority."
WASHINGTON--U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee,
issued a statement today regarding a report from the Government
Accountability Office (GAO) on the breakdown in border security. For
instance,
the report estimates that nearly 40% of illegal immigrants eluded
apprehension to gain passage into the United States through the Tucson,
Arizona sector.
You can view the GAO Report here.
Sessions comments follow:
"This
report demonstrates, despite the pleas of millions of Americans, the
border
is still not secure. Just a few years ago, we were within reach of
achieving true border security, but the Obama administration has undone
those efforts, engaging in a sustained and reckless dismantling of
enforcement - pulling resources from the border, ignoring
sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law enforcement,
suing states that are rightly trying to help enforce our laws, gutting
programs to train state and local law enforcement, and granting backdoor
amnesty. Because of this, securing our borders
must remain our number one priority."
