Thursday, July 7, 2011

Broken Ice...

The union representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and employees has issued ANOTHER no confidence vote in its leadership.

ICE has to be the most inept agency out there.  Which is saying something, considering the ineptness that's out there!

Janice Kephart of the Center for Immigration Studies has done alot of work exposing what the Obama administration has done to decapitate an already brainless organization.  In 2010 she exposed a letter from the ICE Union President that contained the following:

"• While ICE reports internally that more than 90 percent of ICE detainees are first encountered in jails after they are arrested by local police for criminal charges, ICE senior leadership misrepresents this information publicly in order to portray ICE detainees as being non-criminal in nature to support the Administration's position on amnesty and relaxed security at ICE detention facilities.

• The majority of ICE ERO Officers are prohibited from making street arrests or enforcing United States immigration laws outside of the institutional (jail) setting. This has effectively created "amnesty through policy" for anyone illegally in the United States who has not been arrested by another agency for a criminal violation.

• ICE Detention Reforms have transformed into a detention system aimed at providing resort like living conditions to criminal aliens. Senior ICE leadership excluded ICE officers and field managers (the technical experts on ICE detention) from the development of these reforms, and instead solicited recommendations from special interest groups. The lack of technical expertise and field expertise has resulted in a priority of providing bingo nights, dance lessons and hanging plants to criminals, instead of addressing safe and responsible detention reforms for non-criminal individuals and families. Unlike any other agency in the nation, ICE officers will be prevented from searching detainees housed in ICE facilities allowing weapons, drugs and other contraband into detention centers putting detainees, ICE officers and contract guards at risk."



If you know the battle our understaffed agents wage at the border, catching only a percentage of those crossing illegally - this is a spit in their face.

I know people who cross the border legally, and stay illegally past the date on their visa, and work.  Its hard to convince them what they are doing is wrong, and to do it the right way...when there is no consequence to their actions...when the President of the United States and his party work to erase our borders.

5 comments:

Mrs. K said...

How can I get one of those rocking chairs for my front porch? Why the sea horse picture on the wall? Is that some sort of illegal gang icon?

Funny, my word verification is "mantrip"

Race said...

It is my understandint that it is a "detention center" for detained illegal immigrants and their families.

LL said...

The fish rots from the head down.

The entire Dept. of Homeland Security is and has been a sick joke. ICE may be iconic in its worthlessness and ineptness, but it's merely a symptom of a larger disease.

LL said...

---Additionally and on a slightly different topic, I've read from some of the Congressional testimony in the ATF scandal that FBI and DEA were also fully aware of the operation (which makes sense when you understand how the machine usually works) and also participated in walking guns across the border into the hands of cartels. It makes me wonder how high Congress will be able to take it.

Race said...

Nowadays, the FBI doesn't sh** without DOJ approval and agreement (that's what happens when you make USAs Director - Hoover is rolling over in his grave). I would think the ATF would be the same - which would account for Melson's testimony that the DOJ is stonewalling...