it comes to our immigration policy. you have a situation where the obama administration is suing my home state of arizona claiming that enforcement of existing immigration law creates a patch work of uncertainty. well, let s take a look at sanctuary cities like chicago and san francisco who not only are sanctuary cities, they re refusing to even be involved in any type of enforcement under the superior communities act and getting away with millions of dollars about 62 million of the overall 400 million dollars in the state criminal alien assistance program. so, again, you just have public policy schizophrenia. yeah, it s a lot of money, isn t it? here is what the department of justice is telling us, quote, funding under this program is provided to any eligible jurisdiction that incurs costs associated with containing criminal aliens you don t do in sanctuary cities. it goes on.
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people in arizona have but what we can t do is demagogue the issue and allow a patch work of 50 different states or cities or localities where anybody who wants to make a name for themselves say i ll be anti-immigrant and i ll try to see if i can solve the problem ourselves. this is a national problem. the president is talking to you and governor brewer. well, you know, i spent many years with the u.s. justice department drug enforcement administration, head of the operations, mexico city, texas, arizona, why doesn t he call me to the white house and we ll have a little wine like he called the cambridge police sergeant that arrested the professor. i ll be glad to talk and give him some advice of my 30 years in the federal government. but he won t call me. he has the justice department investigating me a year and a half they ve launched that investigation.
to thousands of illegal immigrants in this country without getting any approval from congress. without having to go through congress to do that and some republican senators want to know if the administration is weighing that possibility, but, friday on fox, you heard from the white house press secretary, who was very clear on the administration s stance on am alternate, and we want to you listen to that: the white house doesn t support om nasamnesty and peopl support comprehensive immigration reform don t support amnesty, we have to figure out how to secure or borders and do it in a comprehensive way and at the federal level, because as frustrating as arizonans are, we can t have a patch work of immigration laws throughout each of the 50 states. martha: senator david vitter of louisiana is one republican who is asking the administration for clarification on that memo and joins me now, senator, welcome, good morning to you. thank you, martha. martha: he said the administration does
well. at the end of the day. injunction, likelihood of success. as a basis, if you are talking about immigration you are talking about the supremacy clause. i believe that immigration is an issue is preempted by law. i this it s dangerous, indeed, when you have states be it arizona or anyone that starts making a patch work and quilt of different immigration cases. you have to have one uniform standard. there be the trial on merits later on. you think she ll she ll ice a scapel? she ll use a scapel but i think she will peel away and the main law, there will be no injunction. look at the history, go by the books, not a maverick or activist judge. she was appointed by clinton. she has put away illegal