On Immigration, ICE Employees See Politics Trump Policy
Friday, August 27, 2010 at 10:47 am
Plenty of politicians have accused the Obama administration of playing politics with immigration policy. But even within Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there’s a growing debate over whether ICE officials make decisions based on policy or politics, the Andrew Becker reported today in the Washington Post.
The Obama administration has attempted to strike a fine balance on immigration enforcement: Not so soft as to seem pro-amnesty, but not so tough to appear insensitive to the struggling of illegal immigrant families. Immigration and Customs Services officials have always claimed they make decisions based on resources: ICE can only deport 400,000 people per year, so they argue focusing on illegal immigrants considered dangerous makes the most sense.
ICE officers, managers and lawyers told Becker they are frustrated with ICE’s leadership, particularly agency Director John Morton and Phyllis Coven, the official overseeing detention reform. As the agency seeks to target criminal illegal immigrants and employers who exploit undocumented workers, officers and attorneys are increasingly encouraged to drop deportation charges against immigrants with clean criminal records. These decisions seemed to be based on the political climate, ICE staff said:
Michael D. Rozos Sr., who retired May 1 as one of the agency’s most senior field managers, said he left his position in Miami “several years early” out of frustration that the agency was moving backward toward the years of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. The defunct agency became part of ICE when DHS was created in 2002.
“I see a repeat of what the INS was like, which was chasing its tail,” Rozos said. “They’re trying to go in every direction and end up going in circles.”
Rozos was one of the 24 detention and deportation field managers who sent a memorandum to Morton earlier this year challenging instructions to drop efforts on some deportations. Union workers have also voiced discontent with ICE policies. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents ICE field agents, unanimously gave a vote of “no confidence” in Morton in June.
The White House told Becker enforcement decisions are based on “sound law-and-order principles, not decisions based on the political wind.”
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Comment posted August 27, 2010 @ 5:19 pm
Morton is an idiot and a liar. Why do liberals think everyone is stupid enough to accept their ridiculous excuses? We don't have enough resources, so we're going throw away all the work we've put into this group of illegals. That's so stupid it boggles the mind. How much is wasted when you drop a case? Do they get the resources back somehow? Now we have nothing to show for the resources it took to arrest and detain the illegal and the illegal now has no incentive to leave. If they have a good case for amnesty, let the court do its job.
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The Reaganesque principle in the handling of the Air Comptrollers should be applied to all these critics employed by newly restructured INS/Border Patrol. If the tail wants to wag the dog, cut-off the tail so that these individuals can pursue their their compromised policy views. LBJ used to say, if you're inside the tent, point your pecker outside when you pee.
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Of course; they dont care since they are “deporting alot more people this year”. They dont care that the American people dont believe a word they said when they keep telling us they are doing something when its pretty obvious; they are doing nothing!!!
They have jobs. They are not competing with illegals for the scarse jobs there are these days. They even have good jobs with good pay and benefits!!!
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On August 20, ICE chief John Morton defined the new policy in a communication to his staff. The strategy has the stated purpose of clearing the backlog of cases in immigration court cases, but it also has the effect of creating a de facto amnesty for arrested illegal nationals who have not been convicted of a severe crime. This move follows the leaking of an internal Obama Administration memo which outlined ways of legalizing illegal aliens without Congress' approval.
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A): A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he: * assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or * encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or * knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Not much said–if anything in the national Liberal press, about the Immigration Czars silence on letting non-criminal illegal aliens off the hook. Isn't it Federal law that–ALL–illegal aliens must be deported? Everybody who entered America illegally is just that–ILLEGAL? It has not gone unnoticed that the Media, always consigns to an illegal alien as an illegal immigrant. They are not illegal immigrants they are illegal aliens. They broke the law, whether its civil or a criminal offense? Is this some form of an antidote for an avenue to pass an AMNESTY? If theses officials we trusted to work for the people in Washington are not doing there job.Who will? Perhaps the propagating Tea Party and moderate Conservatives will bring some sense of sanity? According to some Immigration attorney's in Houston, Texas unless you are a criminal alien with felonies, the judges are releasing them back onto the streets.
THE US IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS SERVICE ARE CIRCUMVENTING THE LAW. Knowing this new direction, millions of more illegal aliens will determine its easy to break into America and apply for welfare, receive free hospital treatment and get their children educated on–YOUR– dime, specifically now that that Obama's boys and girls are ignoring the US Constitution and Congress. Stealing your jobs, stealing your SOCIAL SECURITY. YES! Your Social Security pensions are in jeopardy to the massive tune of 2.6 Trillion dollars as according to the Heritage Foundation.. If your ready to accept even more millions of impoverished illegal foreigners and their families, stealing your Social Security? THEN OPEN THE DOORS! DO YOU WANT AN OVERPOPULATED NATION WITH A SHORTAGE OF BASIC NECESSITIES LIKE WATER?
Don't Secure the fence. Don't question Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) why the 2006 Secure Fence Act was severely underfunded. Millions of incorrigible corporate owners will love you for it, so they can hire cut-price labor with no responsibilities. Ill.egal Immigration expenditures have reached $113 Billion annually, a prejudiced Drain on Taxpayers.who cannot even afford to feed their ow children as stated by Federation for American Immigration Reform. With an additional $60 billion tacked on that illegal wages is transferred out of this nation as remittances, with the compliments of numerous American banks.
EVERY INCUMBENT, CAREER POLITICIAN WHO HAS A BAD IMMIGRATION RECORD, BEGINNING WITH SEN. REID AND HIS CZARS MUST BE REMOVED FROM THEIR SEAT IN WASHINGTON. JOIN NUMBERSUSA AND AID IN FIGHTING AGAINST AMNESTY OR BENEFITS FROM THIS INVASION. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Tell your Representative in Washington at 202-224-3121 and State level officials Remember illegal aliens could have voted in the midterm elections? The Obama administration has shown its true colors, that illegal immigration is a great way to collect votes in the future by pacifying large minority groups.
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Businesses will be opened or expand in the United States once we can get a strong demand for products or services internally, USA is the mayor consumer globally so local and outsourced American businesses depend on that demand, we are the capitalism engine of the World, if 95% Americans get a tax break with a new Tax reform as the president promised the renewed expenditure capacity of all Americans will get the United States out of its economic recession overnight. Why people don’t get that we are in this economic recession because Americans lost their expenditure capacity when the Bush administration set up gas prices to rise up to $5 per gallon in less than 6 months that’s the risk that our financial system couldn’t take and nobody could prevent because the reasons why we suffered such gas price increases while simultaneously Bush and Dick Cheney got billions out of their petroleum empires are unknown until this day. Now how Americans can trust conservatives again. The whole conservatism lampoon about immigration is smoke and mirrors tactics to diverse voters’ attention about TAX REFORM, most conservative politicians are using immigration as a Trojan horse to take control of the senate and congress. Get your priorities straight when you vote next November, if we ended up with a conservative based republican majority in the Senate and the Congress they will block the tax cuts the president promised for 95% of Americans and we will suffer a prolonged economic recession. Ask your representatives about Tax Reform before you vote in November.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more Perfect Union, establish Justice, insure Domestic Tranquility, provide for the Common Defense, promote the General Welfare, and Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,”…We support Immigration Reform. We deserve a coherent answer to our concerns about immigration from our Government and the new border security bill is a great start foreign criminals shall be the main focus. It’s all about economics! Removing undocumented workers from the U.S. would sum a total loss of $1.8 trillion in annual spending on top of a $651.5 billion reduction in annual economic output, according to a study by the economic analysis firm The Perryman Group. It would cost about $28 billion per year to apprehend illegal immigrants, $6 billion a year to detain them, $500 million for extra beds, $2 million to judicially process them and $1.6 billion to transport them home; summing a total of $230 Billion as the outrageous amount it would cost over the next five years to enact the scenario of the mass-deportation caucus and deport all the undocumented population, according to a report by the Center for American Progress. In contrast Legalization of undocumented immigrants would significantly expand the economy—by a cumulative $1.5 trillion in gross domestic product over 10 years. A deportation approach, by contrast, would have the cumulative effect of draining $2.5 trillion over 10 years from the U.S. economy. Illegal immigrants are paying taxes to Uncle Sam too. Paycheck withholding collects much of the federal tax from illegal workers, just as it does for legal workers. But some illegal immigrants choose to file taxes and write a check come April 15, using a tax filing number offered by the IRS so it can collect income tax from foreign workers. The latest figures available indicate it will amount to billions of dollars in federal income, Social Security and Medicare taxes this year. One rough estimate puts the amount of Social Security taxes alone at around $9 billion per year. Most importantly the current immigration reform proposal will promote Social Security and Medicare funding without rising taxes to current citizens by imposing a waiting period of 8 years for the legalized immigrants to be able to naturalize as part of their penalty. Social Security and Medicare funding for current citizens can be achieved with the new proposal for immigration reform because in the meanwhile legalized immigrants won’t access benefits after we do the tax contributions the Legalized immigrants will pay to us during 8 years will create a surplus that will warranty an outgoing retirement benefits collection by current citizens without increasing our taxes today. The assumption of transferable skills claimed by the pro-fascism neo-Nazi caucus is ridiculous most unemployed American skill sets and education backgrounds are not match for jobs that immigrants are taking. In contradiction to secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, the Arizona confederate approach will create a monumental chaos around the Nation. Our domestic tranquility as citizens will be lost and the states will spend more in lawsuits and law enforcement misdirected resources at the cost of our safety on top of the massive federal costs of mass deportations. At the end is about fiscal responsibility and ensuring our economic recovery.
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Comment posted August 31, 2010 @ 8:58 am
Wrong wrong wrong…
SS issue one of Obamas plans is to allow retroactive access to ALL former illegal aliens even those who now reside in Mexico and elsewhere legalization would automaticly result in a net drain on the system along with medicaid and medicare the only thing needed to qualify? any kind of proof of past work in the USA which was forged , bought , made during the '86 amnesty to qualify and will be againg should Obama get his wish
“some illegal immigrants choose to file taxes and write a check come April 15″ … …they also use that TIN to get back all of the taxes they paid during the year not to mention that they also get earned income with those TIN's resulting in getting back more than the taxes that they paid again a net drain…
The assumption of transferable skills claimed by the pro-fascism neo-Nazi caucus is ridiculous most unemployed American skill sets and education backgrounds are not match for jobs that immigrants are taking…. … more BS there are many many mechanics carpenters restaurant workers janitors … .. that are illegal aliens and just as many Americans with those same “skill sets” that are unemployed mainly because they can not work for the low pay that illegal aliens will who supplement those low wages with federal state and local aide..
The “blame bush” BS is old and untrue, while he was an idiot the economy didnt tank until Pelosi and Reid took over congress in 2006 and the wheels that were set in motion for that collapse can be traced back as far as the Clinton inititaves for housing which allowed the money lenders to be creative with their financing which fueled the derivitaves market and guess what? illegal aliens were a large part of the failed mortage crises using TIN instead of SSN's
Speak for yourself the Perryman Groups figures do not include the drain that illegal immigration has on the current economy they convientley leave out many of the cost of illegal immigration including the fact that the vast majority of illegal aliens fall below the poverty line and will be again a net drain on the economy add to that the cost of incarceration of illegal aliens up to 20% in federal and local jails and prisons.
Your arguements are colored by liberal bais and the current administrations efforts at evading their duty to uphold the constitution and the laws of this country coupled with every president from Reagan on ignoring illegal immigration has led to an illegal immigration population of between 12 and 20 million illegal aliens (12 million was used as far back as 2002) along with serveral million more American born children of illegal alien parents who qualify for ALL social services availabe to Americans and they do use them to supplement the illegal alien parents.
Your statements have been debunked and are the true trojan horse in this issue
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