Just Illegal Immigration Facts: Director of ICE, Sarah Saldana, gets Iced by a Cruz Missile

by Elizabeth Nelson

I know liberals believe that the only law illegal immigrants have broken is coming across the border.  So, we all watched as they raked Trump across the coals for saying, "Mexico isn't sending us their best, but sending us their drug dealers, rapists and murderers..."  

I understand that Trump was painting immigrants with a broad brush, if taken as a whole, but if the comment is taken in context he's right. After listening to Senator Cruz fillet the Director of ICE, Sarah Saldana, with the shameful immigration facts that he presented her, how far off is Trump's comment, really?

When the Director of ICE, Sarah Saldana, tried to spin these talking points to Sen. Ted Cruz, he wasn’t having it. Cruz schooled her on the facts behind illegal immigration, and how the Obama administration’s actions have endangered the American people.

Wait, endangered us?   I thought Obama called the tsunami of illegals flooding our country, the "best and the brightest?"  Of course, by now, anything Obama says we can expect the exact opposite to be true.

PAT: Meanwhile, Ted Cruz had sitting in front of him yesterday the director of ICE, Sarah Saldana. And he was talked to her about — the criminal illegal aliens. Okay. Not the people coming in. Just the good, hard-working, decent human beings trying to support their family. Not to say that the criminal illegals aren’t good decent hard-working people trying to support their family. They just happen to do it while they break the law.

STU: Technically, all illegal immigrants whether they’re good or not are breaking the law as they’re trying to feed their families.

PAT: But that’s they didn’t have a Post-It note when they should have. Their mom didn’t give them the Post-It note that said, my son may cross the border. They didn’t have that.

STU: That’s the issue. That’s the undocumented part of that. But Cruz is specifically talking about something else though. He’s talking about people with real criminal activity, not just violations of laws that we don’t enforce.

PAT: Right.

TED: In the year 2013, how many criminal illegal aliens did the Obama administration release?

SARAH: In ’14, it was a little over 30,000.

PAT: That wasn’t the question though. He said 2013. And then she goes, well, in ’14, it was 30,000. Keep going.

TED: How many murderers?

SARAH: In that year, sir, I can’t remember the number right now, but I know that we had — the statistic that was said earlier, the four-year period from 2010 to 2014, that there were 121 persons who committed crimes afterwards. But I can’t provide you the exact number.

TED: How many rapists?

SARAH: I am not sure right now. I’d have to pull that number.

PAT: Keep in mind, this is important information, Ted Cruz, being a lawyer, knows that you never ask a question you don’t already know the answer to. This much he already knows, so just bear that in mind.

TED: How many drunk drivers?

SARAH: Same answer. I can certainly bring that down for you. And, in fact, I think we’re working on that right now. It’s been requested before.

I have to laugh at Director Saldana, because one would think she would have come prepared to face Senator Cruz.  She knew full well that she was coming to debate the man who was a polarizing figure at Harvard, and had honed his debate skills on the best debate team at Princeton University in 1992. Read more NYTimes

TED: Yesterday, how many murderers did the Obama administration release?

SARAH: Now, Senator, I don’t know the answer to that question, but I want the American people to understand our job and our mission, if I may.

SARAH: Now, Senator, I don’t know the answer to that question, but I want the American people to understand our job and our mission, if I may.

Of course, Senator Cruz came prepared and already had the numbers he was asking her for. The corrected numbers may surprise some, terrify others and potentially anger many others.

TED: Ms. Saldana, I want to note that your testimony here when I asked you how many criminals ICE released in 2013, you were off by a factor of three. You said 30,000. The correct answer is 104,000. There were 68,000 criminals, criminal illegal alien that ICE declined to begin deportation proceedings against, despite the fact as Senator Sessions observed the federal law that you’re holding up there says they shall be deported. The Obama administration refused to deport them. That’s 68,000.

Are these the "best" Mexico and other Countries have to offer? We need to find a balance, where we can secure the safety of our own family while welcoming others. I'm tired of hearing people say, "we are a land of immigrants, this is what we do."  Yes, we are a land of immigrants, who followed the law, came over here legally, became citizens and continued to obey the law.  We didn't turn a blind eye to murderers, rapists, drug dealers, and law breakers that cluttered up our jails, prisons and court system.  


In addition to that, there were 36,000 in deportation proceedings with criminal convictions that the Obama administration released, and I would note that among those were 193 murderers with homicide convictions, were 426 people with sexual assault convictions, were over 16,000 criminal illegal aliens with drunk driving convictions released by this administration because this administration refuses to follow the law.

Ms. Saldana, I will note in your opening statement here, you said after listening to the victim’s family that you were so sorry for their losses.

And yet the Obama administration keeps doing it. When I asked you how many murderers were released yesterday, you don’t know. There is a reason the American people are upset. If President Obama had the courage of his convictions, he would come and look in the eyes of these men and women who have lost their sons, their daughters, their mothers, their sisters, their brothers, and the administration would stop releasing murderers and rapists.

PAT: That’s why I love this guy. It’s just great. Great. Read entire transcript and hear entire interview here WFMD

I have to agree with Pat, this is why I love this man and why I think he'd make a great President one day.  He doesn't mince words, hold punches, or allow liberal's to stay in their fuzzy warm little "I don't know, spin the truth" world, but bursts their bubble with truth and facts.  Like daddy always said, "the truth doesn't care if you like it or not, it's still going to be the truth in the morning when the sun comes up."