john morton's job as heaa of i.c.e. is to enforce the law and secretary of homeland security janet napolitano's job is to enforce the law. because you disagree with the law means nothing. you enforce that law. you're a law enforcer. that's how our constitution is set up. that's the power invested in them. if our founding fathers had wanted them to be legislator, they woull have written it into the constitution. if the people in this country wanted them to be legislators, i can tell you what they would have done. they would have amended the constitution and handed the power to change federal law over to john morton, janet napolitano, or maybe the president of the united states. that's not who we are, that's not the way it is. . we must dwevend the rule of law. if -- we must defend the raleigh of law. if we are going to allow it to come from the american people. and from the president of the united states who taught constitutional law at the stellar university of chicago school of law to think that that's the case, that h

next, we have assistant secretary john morton. he leads the principal investigative component for dhs and also the second largest investigative component in the u.s. government. he's a career attorney, doj experience in government service for many years. then we have deputy commissioner aguilar, a career border security officer for 30 years, and now is the deputy commissioner of the customs and border protection. and then lastly, we're very -- it's actually one of the honors we have here is chief davis, who is the chief of police of san jose, caliiornia, and president of the major cities chiefs association, flew in on the red- eye today to be with us, and he's been with the police force there since 1980. so we're actually really privileged to have him here as well. i'm going to go ahead and take the prerogative of opening up the first question. and i want to tap into some of the local law enforcement experience we have at the table here, and ask a question about information sharing. we talk a lot about information sharing at the f

i don't know if john morton read the bill, but he didn't want to enforce the bill. posner had no business sticking his nose in it whatsoever and carried it all the way to the chinese. i can't stand here on the floor of the house of represtatives without raising anssue of president calderon back behind where i'stanng now spoke to a joi session of congress and had to lecture us on how he strongly disagrees with arizona's immigration law. if he does, he also disagrees with the federal united states federal government's immigration law. it mirrors the feral immigratn law. and so we are in an era where the administration, the highest raing officials within the administration aren't compelled to check the facts before they misform the amerin people. they might cck a left-wing website, butar ecking the facts. and the amen people, who are they going to trust, shouldn't they tru the voicef the president of the united states? who's briefing him. who is telling him was in the bill? codn't anyone have given him an objective analysis. what kind of a shop is being run at thwhite

i want to thank john morton and david aguilar, as well as the experts in this area who are here today. thank you. i am happy to welcome robert davis. he is a great community leader in the city of san jose. he is doing some important and novel things with the police department there. the association has been a great partner with the department of homeland security. we are proud the 56 big-city police chiefs that you represent and the more than 800,000 sworn officers that are present in those departments. thank you, chief. before i open it up for discussion, i would like to speak about some of the immigration and border-related challenges that law enforcement faces. first, let me begin by saying that border security and enforcement is primarily the responsibility of the federal government. unfortunately, for decades, we have not had an effective strategy that is border-wide. we have not devoted the attention, personnel, or resources that have been required to cover the border all the way from brownsville to san diego. from day one, the obama administration has taken its responsibility h