rssIs ICE Trying to Avoid Enforcing Laws?
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 5:57 pm
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Anti-immigration groups are accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement of trying to limit immigration enforcement, citing a draft policy memo ICE released this month. The memo has one major change to detention policy: it would prevent immigration officers from detaining illegal immigrants for traffic misdemeanors unless they have other immigration or criminal violations or are deemed a safety risk.
The policy seems in line with stated Department of Homeland Security policies to focus deportation efforts on dangerous illegal immigrants. But Center for Immigration Studies wrote today the policy is an attempt to give illegal immigrants a “free pass”:
According to the draft document’s cover e-mail from Ann Yom Steel, a political appointee whose mission seems to be to harass and discourage local agencies who want to help ICE and who want ICE to help them, the agency is responding to the “many concerns [of immigration law enforcement critics] related to immigration detainers, including that they could distort the state criminal process or open the window for pretextual, minor criminal charges.” In other words, ICE believes the ethnic advocacy groups who accuse local cops and sheriffs of abusing their authority by trumping up traffic charges on innocent illegal aliens in order to have them deported. Therefore, all illegal aliens who violate traffic laws will get a free pass from ICE, unless they also happen to have committed other “real” crimes.
It may have been emailed to stakeholders, but anyone can access the memo — ICE posted the draft policy on its website August 4. The draft memo is being considered as part of a broad reform of the detention system, which immigrants rights groups have criticized for its steadily growing number of detainees. Because ICE can only deport about 400,000 illegal immigrants per year, officials have chosen to prioritize enforcement of illegal immigrants considered dangerous.
“ICE has not made any decisions. We posted the drafted detainer policy to solicit views from all sides — sheriffs, community leaders and think tanks,” Richard Rocha, deputy press secretary for ICE, tells TWI. “ICE is committed to smart and effective immigration enforcement, and we want to make sure our policies match our priority, which is to target criminal aliens.”
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Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 11:26 pm
Anti-immigration groups? Wouldn't “anti-illegal immigration groups” be more accurate?
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Comment posted August 19, 2010 @ 11:44 pm
Come on folks, fund and enforce law enforcement aimed at removing the millions of illegals here. Isn't $44 Billion spent to deliver illegal anchor babies enough without feeding, housing, educating, and providing medical services to them throughout childhood, too? This is an outrage being perpetuated on the citizens of this country. It is an insult and further outrage to call people who are tired of it, racists.
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Comment posted August 20, 2010 @ 1:14 pm
The Administration claims that they only have the funds to deport 44,000 people a year. BULL! They can deport many more of them, but are unwilling to cede border enforcement to where it should be in the first place, the military.
First, incorporate the Border Patrol into ICE and put the U.S. Army along the Mexican border. To hell with a border fence, have the Army plant land mines and strategically patrol with weapons loaded to capture and return any illegal aliens. If necessary, give them orders to “shoot to kill” any of these foreign invaders who resist. Also, have them run combat patrols through the Federal Property in the border states that U.S. citizens are either prohibited from or cautioned against going due to it being de facto owned by Mexican drug gangs.
At the same time, take ICE and round up and return ALL the illegal aliens who are here. This will not actually take all the resources available to the government, because when the illegal aliens see that America is actually serious about enforcing their laws many of them will return back to where they came from.
Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law all employers who hire the illegal aliens. Give those being deported that have children that are American citizens the choice of taking their children with them or having them put in the care of DSS. Do NOT give them the choice of having them put in the care of a relative. Chances are the anchor babies are going back to Mexico too.
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Comment posted August 25, 2010 @ 5:08 pm
Of course all “illegal” aliens are “criminal” aliens, that's what illegal means.
The trick is to first refer to some illegals as being somehow legitimate, then we're meant to start talking about getting that citizenship we owe them.
No way! Illegal means illegal. NONE have any legitimate claim to live in the US. None.
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