{"id":6807,"date":"2014-06-02T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T19:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6807"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:58:22","slug":"homeland-security-secretary-laws-like-californias-necessitate-amnesty-create-legal-ambiguity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/02\/homeland-security-secretary-laws-like-californias-necessitate-amnesty-create-legal-ambiguity\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security Secretary: Laws Like California\u2019s Necessitate Amnesty, Create \u201cLegal Ambiguity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
During a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) oversight hearing<\/a> on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson admitted state laws like California\u2019s<\/a>, giving<\/a> various licenses<\/a> to illegal aliens, reduce the likelihood that the illegal aliens will ever choose to leave the country. \u201cThere are states now where they are permitted to have driver\u2019s licenses. [The] California Supreme Court says than an undocumented immigrant in this country can practice law. So they\u2019re not going away. They\u2019re not going to self deport,\u201d he told the Committee. Illegal aliens\u2019 decision not to leave on their own, a decision Secretary Johnson admitted is influenced by favorable treatment, means that we have no choice but to give virtually all of them amnesty. \u201cThe likelihood is next to zero that they will all self deport,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to accept the fact that we have 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in this country, we have to deal with them. I don\u2019t think we should allow them to continue to exist in a state of legal ambiguity or in a dark hole.\u201d<\/p>\n