Chutzpah: Obama administration blames GOP for murder of woman by illegal alien

By News on the Net Examiner —— Bio and Archives July 7, 2015

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In what many law enforcement officers are calling "chutzpah in the first degree," President Barack Obama and his White House on Monday defended current unilateral immigration policies and blamed the nation's Republicans for the killing of a San Francisco woman by an illegal alien suspect who took advantage of a Sanctuary City policy embraced by the ultra-liberal local politicians.

When a reporter asked if the killing of 32-year-old Kathryn Steinle was due to the Obama administration’s enforcement policies, White House press secretary Josh Earnest denied culpability and blamed Republican lawmakers for blocking a bipartisan immigration bill that would have boosted funding for border security. But police and national security officials who spoke with the Examiner on Monday say Earnest's arguments are a mixture of lies, half-truths and foggy thinking. "We've been discussing border security for years now and yet nothing was done," said former drug enforcement officer Stephen Henry Rios. "The congress passed legislation that provided billions of dollars for a 'virtual' border fence, surveillance drones, close-circuit television and capacitance detectors and alarms," he noted. More...