Detention reform is putting ICE employees at risk now.
The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday about the ICE detention reform measures that are being put into place as we speak.
These relaxed policies are not only going to place ICE employees at risk of physical harm, but they are going to be a drain on taxpayers across the country.
El Paso Times reports on ICE discrimination
"The union that represents 8,000 ICE employees wants the Department of Homeland Security to investigate complaints alleging discrimination and harassment of ICE female employees in the agency's El Paso division.
Three recent cases involved ICE officers who were pregnant, said Chris Crane, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFL-CIO), National Council 118-ICE."
But that's not all that the recent article in the El Paso Times reports... This is a much deeper, darker story. We've got management and OPR trying to intimidate employees and union reps, and managers with experience in burying media issues being moved across the country after the union staged a successful informational picket in front of the El Paso Field Office.
ICE protests shame agency into action
ICE Agents and other ICE employees have been mistreated by managers in the El Paso Field Office and on April 23rd, they took their protests to the streets. Complaints about management abuse up to this point seemed to have been completely ignored. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement John Morton have both been notified of the mismanagement, but neither has responded to the complaints.
Washington Post reports on ICE arrest quotas
A recent article in the Washington Post demonstrates that Assistant Secretary Morton's assurances of there being no arrest quotas in ICE are not to be relied upon.
From the article:
"Seeking to reverse a steep drop in deportations, U.S. immigration authorities have set controversial new quotas for agents. At the same time, officials have stepped back from an Obama administration commitment to focus enforcement efforts primarily on illegal immigrants who are dangerous or have violent criminal backgrounds.
The moves, outlined in internal documents and a recent e-mail by a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official to field directors nationwide, differ from pledges by ICE chief John T. Morton and his boss, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, to focus enforcement on the most dangerous illegal immigrants. That approach represented a break from the mass factory raids and neighborhood sweeps the Bush administration used to drive up arrests...