don t trust the police, they don t work, hand in hand with the police. when they think they might be reported to the immigration agencies. in addition, those police have as their first priority the public safety of the community. not enforcing our immigration law. l.a. does not call itself a sanctuary city. but they do as you say, not cooperate with immigration agencies the way san francisco, seattle, chicago, new york, and many cities with large immigrant populations. now there s this state bill, sb-54 in committee, california state senate to make california a sanctuary state. earlier this week, republicans held a press conference and they had sheriffs speaking out against this bill. saying it would actually allow criminals to slip through the cracks. you talked about the sajt wary city, or sanctuary state idea being safety-related. how can you insure safety from
fund the department of homeland security. the umbrella of immigration agencies until early next year. or more blunty, until reinforcement in the tomorrow of a republican majority arrives. congressman joe barton is joining us now. he says he s not convinced this is the right approach. welcome, congressman, good to have you here. glad to be with you. tell me why you don t agree with this approach or you have concerns about it. well, article 1 says the congress is a legislative body. article 1 section 1. article 1 section 8 explicitly says the congress is responsible for passing bills that deal with naturalization, ie, immigration. the president clearly doesn t have the authority to do whatever he has done, you know, president lincoln talked about government of the people, by the people, for the people. this president apparently is talking about government by obama for obama and, you know, for himself. that s just in my opinion flat
going to try to defund say homeland security, one of those agencies that deal with illegal immigration. well, i think the leadership doesn t want them to do that. john boehner will do everything he can despite the statements to the contrary. we ve seen it in the past. if there is a revolt and a way to do that, they will, but i don t think john boehner will allow it to happen. they could do an initial vote claiming the executive branch doesn t have the constitutional authority to do what the president did last week. that is a symbolic vote. then what he is planning is step two, which would be sort of a funding bill that is a hybrid between the continuing resolution on the immigration agencies only as well as the massive fund to fund the bill through 2015. so they pass both and
washington, kirsten powers. so monica, do you think the republicans in the house are going to try to defund say homeland security, one of those agencies that deal with illegal immigration. well, i think the leadership doesn t want them to do that. john boehner will do everything he can despite the statements to the contrary. we ve seen it in the past. if there is a revolt and a way to do that, they will, but i don t think john boehner will allow it to happen. they could do an initial vote claiming the executive branch doesn t have the constitutional authority to do what the president did last week. that is a symbolic vote. then what he is planning is step two, which would be sort of a funding bill that is a hybrid between the continuing resolution on the immigration agencies only as well as the
washington, kirsten powers. so monica, do you think the republicans in the house are going to try to defund say homeland security, one of those agencies that deal with illegal immigration. well, i think the leadership doesn t want them to do that. john boehner will do everything he can despite the statements to the contrary. we ve seen it in the past. if there is a revolt and a way to do that, they will, but i don t think john boehner will allow it to happen. they could do an initial vote claiming the executive branch doesn t have the constitutional authority to do what the president did last week. that is a symbolic vote. then what he is planning is step two, which would be sort of a funding bill that is a hybrid between the continuing resolution on the immigration agencies only as well as the