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

and jon morton, head of i.c.e. don't want enforce the law and pick up thlegals that are pckedup b arizona law eorcement officers, he should find himself aob that his heart was in, to do something thate could do that he believes is right. if he disagre with policy -- you know, a general who thinks wre off on the wrong mission will resigtheir commission if they don't think they are political pple and that has happened a number of times when they get an order they can't carry out, generals have resigned. theyaintain their integry. there's an der out there and it's enforce thlaw. ooperate, by the way, with arizona, who has uttered this scream of frustration that they have to take their resoces and pass an imgration law that i hope and plead goes to every state in the uon. if they can findays to toughen it up and make it more effective, do that. stt with that undation of izona's law. it's rare when a stateakes an initiative that it begins to state the policy for america. would very happy to see this happen, mr. speaker,

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