“Our view of the law is, if somebody is here without sufficient documentation, that is not reason for deportation,” Pelosi said during the interview. “If someone has broken the law or committed a felony or something, that’s a different story.” Politico 12/16/14
Fact Check: Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is House Minority Leader, so her views have significance. And her use of the phrase “our view” suggests that others in her party share them. For patriotic American citizens who support the rule of law, this is disheartening to say the least.
By her own words, she seems to believe that insufficient documentation “is not a reason for deportation.” In reality, there are not gradations in documents attesting legal status. A foreigner either has completely legal residence in the U.S., a status confirmed by documents, or he doesn’t. There’s no in between.
And if he doesn’t have legal status, he is breaking the law and is subject to deportation. Strangely, Pelosi seems to agree that breaking the law or committing “a felony or something” is reason for deportation. How can one resolve this seeming contradiction?
The only logical possibility is that in her heart of hearts, Pelosi doesn’t believe immigration laws are really laws. Thus there is no reason to deport foreigners who break them. Evidently in her mind, other laws, such as ones she considers felonies, should be cause for deportation. In point of fact, most illegal aliens use fraudulent documents to live in the U.S., and that usage is often classed as a felony.
Pelosi, of course, has the right to her opinions, but not the right to dismiss laws she doesn’t like. The authority to make law and have them enforced properly belongs to the whole body of Congress. Unfortunately, Pelosi is not the only leader who doesn’t understand this principle. Another is President Obama who has curtailed immigration law enforcement by edict without respect for the jurisdiction of Congress.
This is not the first time that Pelosi has expressed her strange views on immigration law. Another notorious example was her statement in 2009 before an audience of legal and illegal immigrants. There she proclaimed that enforcement as she claimed it was being conducted was “un-American.”
Then she expressed the following gem of wisdom to her listeners, “You are special people. You are here . . . to take responsibility for our country’s future. That makes you very, very patriotic.” One wonders just what is special about foreigners who ignore our laws, and one must wonder even more how that makes them “patriotic” toward a country which is not even theirs.
Pelosi and her fellow thinkers don’t seem to know of care about the essentials of our law and citizenship. Their attitude, to say the least, is very, very unpatriotic.