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CBS reports on ICE's recent moves towards amnesty through policy.
CBS reports in this news story about the massive number of deportation cases that are being terminated (dismissed) throughout Texas and the rest of the country.
ICE Union votes no confidence in Assistant Secretary Morton
It was announced publicly today that the ICE Union held an unanimous Vote of No Confidence in Assistant Secretary Morton and Executive Director Coven. The document speaks for itself so read it HERE.
Washington Post reports on whistleblower "Witch Hunt" within ICE
The Washington Post reported yesterday about ICE targeting an employee that their Office of Personal Responsibility (OPR, similar to what many agencies call Internal Affairs) evidently thinks leaked documents that showed ICE does in fact have arrest quotas. And OPR is not just going after an employee for blowing the lid off of these unfair quotas, but the only reason they are going after this agent appears to be because both he and the reporter that broke the story (also in the Washington Post) have an Asian last name.
This kind of discrimination is not what we want to see in a premier law enforcement agency. Especially not our agency, which is tasked with enforcing laws that are, by their very nature, inclined to draw racial scrutiny and controversy. No, our agency needs to stand above all others in this department, and yet, once again, they have let us down. When will this stop? When will our agency begin to do the right thing? When will our agency step up and do the job that it is supposed to do, instead of targeting its own employees for speaking the truth?
National media picks up the story on the agency's new immigration spa and resorts.
The headline on CNN.com reads "ICE mulls 'softening' immigration detention centers". The report focuses on the split between ICE political appointees who are out of touch with reality and the hardworking employees of ICE that actually deal with the issues at hand on a daily basis. ICE leadership neglected to respond in this article, but ICE Council President Chris Crane spells one of the main problems when he explains how jails release criminals to ICE to be deported instead of going through the expense of convicting an illegal alien of a serious crime and then paying for incarceration. Having these criminals placed in these dangerously low security facilities is a recipe for disaster. Allowing "contact visitation" and not conducting searches will immediately result in drugs and weapons being introduced into our detention facilities. This is a policy that simply hasn't been thought out by the ICE "leaders" that are bending to outside lobbying influences. Proof of this is another article in the left-leaning Huffington Post. This AP article points out few of the negative consequences of policies that include fresh flowers and dance lessons, but does point out that even pro-illegal alien groups are puzzled by these new agreements between ICE and Corrections Corporation of America: Andrea Black of the Detention Watch Network is quoted as saying, "This is their response? To offer fresh carrots and bingo nights?"
Regardless of your views on the immigration debate overall, it is inarguable that this is not the type of detention reform that anyone but criminals would be interested in. Assistant Secretary Morton, it's time to do something about this.
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.
Dallas DRO: taking care of business
Not a bad clip... Not nearly as embarrassing as the Univision clip...
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.