Latest News!Written By Comment Count Comment Last Three August 13, 2010
Chuck Floyd
Border agents and DHS government employees are revolting against Obama's back door amnesty program against the illegals coming across our borders. They want to enforce the law and do their jobs, but Obama and his political appointees are trying to block the border agents and the dedicated employees of CBP.
Again, Obama and his administration are not protecting the tax paying American citizens, but playing politics and catering to the left-wing of the Democrat party and open borders crowd. No confidence in Obama---really. The union that represents rank-and-file field agents at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has unanimously passed a "vote of no confidence" for the agency's leadership, saying ICE has "abandoned" its core mission of protecting the public to support a political agenda favoring amnesty. The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 7,000 ICE agents and employees, voted 259-0 for a resolution saying there was "growing dissatisfaction and concern" over the leadership of Assistant Secretary John Morton, who heads ICE, and Phyllis Coven, assistant director for the agency's office of detention policy and planning. The resolution said ICE leadership had "abandoned the agency's core mission of enforcing U.S. immigration laws and providing for public safety," instead directing its attention "to campaigning for programs and policies related to amnesty and the creation of a special detention system for foreign nationals that exceeds the care and services provided to most U.S. citizens similarly incarcerated. "It is the desire of our union … to publicly separate ourselves from the actions of Director Morton and Assistant Director Coven and publicly state that ICE officers and employees do not support Morton or Coven or their misguided and reckless initiatives, which could ultimately put many in America at risk," the union said. In a strongly worded statement, the union and its affiliated local councils said the integrity of the agency "as well as the public safety" would be "better provided for in the absence of Director Morton and Assistant Director Coven." The statement also noted that: • The majority of ICE's enforcement and removal officers are prohibited from making street arrests or enforcing U.S. immigration laws outside of the jail setting. • Hundreds of ICE officers nationwide perform no law enforcement duties whatsoever because of resource mismanagement within the agency. • ICE detention reforms have transformed into a detention system aimed at providing resort-like living conditions to criminal aliens based on recommendations not from ICE officers and field managers, but from "special-interest groups." • The lack of technical expertise and field experience 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 noncriminal individuals and families. Our southern border is more dangerous that the borders in Iraq and Afghanistan. Where is the US Department of State when it comes to Mexico and their policy of send millions of illegals across our border? Where is the Department of Justice and Homeland Security on fighting the drug cartels and human trafficking organizations? Our political leaders are absent when it comes to fully enforcing our borders and protecting our rights. It is all about potential voters and union members. -
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