8 Broadcaster Press June 14, 2016 www.broadcasteronline.com The Lawlessness of the Obama Administration City Dealing With Rash Of Burglaries By Shauna Marlette shauna.marlette@plaintalk.net By Senator Mike Rounds tory of conveniently losing important records. Emails and computer equipment were destroyed around the time that congressional committees held hearings to examine the IRS’ Throughout President Obama’s time in office, he and targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. officials within his administration have acted without The Supreme Court is currently reviewing a case related deference to the law when issuing new rules, regulations to President Obama’s 2014 executive order on immigration. and mandates. The executive branch has, in many cases, The executive order completely changed U.S. immigration chosen to ignore the two other branches of government law, delayed deportations of millions of undocumented which the Constitution explicitly states are coequals. This immigrants living in the U.S., and gave legal status and undermines each branch’s ability to keep the others in government benefits to more than four million undocucheck. The president gets around the system of checks and mented immigrants. Twenty-four states sued the federal balances by issuing executive orders, having his departgovernment over this executive action, and a federal judge ments issue regulations or directives and – in some cases in Texas ordered the Department of Justice and Department – willfully ignoring the law of the land. Even worse, many of Homeland Security to stop processing applications from of these rules and regulations are negatively impacting undocumented immigrants. However, the Department of South Dakotans. In some cases, it takes the courts years to Homeland Security admitted to granting more than 100,000 overturn these rules. permits after the injunction was ordered, and even worse, Many South Dakotans are familiar with the Waters of the officials at the Department of Justice knew what was hapU.S. (WOTUS) rule issued by the Environmental Protection pening the entire time and did nothing to stop it. Classifieds … Agency (EPA) and Army Corps. It is a regulation that gives These are just a few examples of the Obama administrathe Army Corps and the EPA control of nearly Call 624-4429 tion ignoring the law to promote the president’s liberal, A sure bet! all water, including man-made water management systems, farm ponds, progressive agenda with little regard for those who would drainage ditches and any other water that the EPA decides be affected. Our founding fathers drafted the Constitution has a “significant nexus” to downstream water. It would call to prevent one branch of government from having more for farmers, ranchers and other landowners to comply with power than the other two. It would do our next president burdensome and costly permitting requirements. A number 624-4429 that he or she is responsible for upholdA sure bet! well to remember of states across the country, including South Dakota, have ing the law rather than manipulating it to fit his or her sued the federal government to stop the WOTUS rule from political agenda. being implemented, and last fall a judge issued a nationCongress has the ability to vote on, and has frequently wide stay to halt the rule. However, reports have recently passed, resolutions of disapproval of the president’s many surfaced that the Army Corps has been moving forward A sure bet! regulations, but the president continues to veto them. To with implementation of the rule anyway, blatantly violating 624-4429 the Senate needs a two-thirds majoroverturn that veto, the law. With Senate, that has The Broadcaster ity vote. nearlythe current makeup of the states and other Another Obama administration agency, the Internal become impossible. Additionally, Revenue Service (IRS), is being investigated for its apparentities have sued the administration in an attempt to ent failure to keep official records of employees’ electronic stop these infractions. But, it takes years for the courts to communications. This is in direct violation of the Federal enforce the laws that we have on the books, slowing down Records Act, a law put into place in 1950 to establish abet! 624-4429which the powers of the three branches of the process by A sure government are balanced. system for appropriate record keeping within federal government agencies. Themind, the IRS has a hisKeep in Broadcaster Classifieds … Classifieds … Classifieds … 201 W. Cherry, Vermillion, SD Mosquito Control Spraying Planned Classifieds … beginning June 13, 2016 and end June 17, 2016. 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In the months of May and June there have already been 28 confirmed car break-ins committed: 13 of them early on the morning of Sunday, June 6 and an additional five on Wednesday, June 1, alone. “We had a substantial number of burglaries reported on those two nights in the last week,” Betzen said. “We are not sure at this point if it is one individual, one group of individuals or several different people. All we do know is that they are going car to car, door to door and breaking into cars. There have also been several instances where we believe they have accessed unlocked garages, as well.” While the police department has no suspects at this time they are working to establish a potential pattern in the hopes of being able to increase patrols. Betzen noted that Elk Point has had similar burglaries recently, as well, so they are working with the Elk Point Police Department to see if there is a similar pattern. “The issue is they have not been impacting just one area of town so we are not sure where to set the extra patrols,” Betzen said. “There have been quite a few instances in the southeast part of town, but that doesn’t mean anything, because there is no guarantee that they will return to the areas they have already targeted.” Betzen said that the number of burglaries traditionally increases this time of year. “Every summer we see these types of crimes increase,” he said. “In most cases we identify and charge the individuals. Many times they are juveniles and because they are treated differently in the court system I am not sure what deterrent that has been. Also, say we do identify and charge someone with committing five of the burglaries, that raises the question did they commit all 30? It is hard to tell.” Betzen said he hopes the community will harden the targets of opportunity for the individuals committing the burglaries. “People need to roll up their windows, lock their car and garage doors and remove all valuables from the car,” he said. “Even if your windows are rolled up and the doors are locked, if the individuals can look in the window and see cash or say a GPS system, they will break the windows to get access to the car. If you have alarm systems, use them. Use common sense and park under the street lights, if possible. Darkness is a burglar’s friend; they are less likely to break into your vehicle if it is in a lighted area.” The other piece of advice Betzen has for the community is if something doesn’t look right, or you hear or see something, call the police right away. “We have heard from several people in the community that they did hear or see something and they just didn’t call, which, honestly, isn’t that unusual,” he said. “But if you call us, we have people out on patrol and unless there is something major happening in the community we will respond right away.” He stressed that when a group of individuals has success in a community they will likely come back. “We live in a very trusting community and people do take advantage of that,” Betzen said. “Also, keep in mind it doesn’t mean anything for someone to travel 50 miles up the interstate from Sioux City to do something like this. It is very easy for them to leave and return. 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