Luxuries for Border Felons, Jail for Americans

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Luxuries for Border Felons, Jail for Americans

By James P. Tucker Jr.


Illegal aliens are often excused as they stroll across the Mexican border but “violent felons” are seized and placed in facilities where they are given dancing lessons, bingo nights and other forms of luxury living. These shocking policies were exposed by a union of border agents and by government officials who would be fired if identified.

The National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council of the American Federation of Government Employees said, in a newly released letter, that U.S. officials had “abandoned” their core mission of protecting the public and were instead supporting a political agenda promoting amnesty. The union expressed “growing dissatisfaction and concern” over the leadership of John Morton, who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and assistant director Phyllis Coven.

The agency’s integrity “as well as public safety” would be “better provided for in the absence of Director Morton and Assistant Director Coven,” the union’s letter said. It cited numerous absurdities. Among them:

ICE detention reforms have turned into a system that provides resort-like living conditions to criminal immigrants based on recommendations by “special interest groups” and not ICE officers and field managers. Thus, hanging plants are provided along with dance lessons, bingo nights and other entertainment.

ICE officers are prevented from searching detainees, allowing weapons, drugs and other contraband into detention centers, putting officers and contract guards at risk.

ICE senior leadership ignores reports of misconduct by its office of professional responsibility and retaliates against whistleblowers and conceals wrongdoing.

Criminal aliens held in state and local jails “openly brag” that they are taking advantage of the flawed system and will be back in the United States within days to commit more crimes—while U.S. citizens arrested for the same offenses serve prison sentences.
ICE’s top leadership dedicated “more time to campaigning for immigration reforms aimed at large-scale amnesty legislation than advising the American public and federal lawmakers on the severity of the illegal immigration problems,” the union said.

The Obama administration is “not serious about enforcing all of our immigration laws,” Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.) told The Washington Times. Smith is the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee
and a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is miffed, too.

Politics is another great incentive for Democrats to protect illegal aliens. In 2000, more than 1 million illegal aliens voted in the presidential election, according to the highly respected Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based think tank. A coalition of Hispanic advocacy groups boasted that more than 90 percent of illegal aliens voted Democratic in the 2000 election.

Illegal votes by illegal aliens could also account for Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-Va.) defeat of incumbent GOP Sen. George Allen in 2006.
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