And if you do it anyway — that is, if you do your job? Well, then, goodbye to you:
A veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing suspension after he refused to release an illegal immigrant who was not considered a priority target under the Obama Administration’s new immigration enforcement policies, according to documents provided exclusively to Fox News.
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“They’re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying to uphold U.S. law,” said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council. Crane is a union representative acting on the unidentified officer’s behalf.
The officer under fire is an 18-year law enforcement and military veteran.
On March 27 he and another officer were conducting surveillance on a vehicle in Newark, Del. with plates that were registered to a criminal alien target. During the surveillance, they observed an individual get into the vehicle. The person was detained, questioned and taken to an ICE office so that his fingerprints could be run through a federal database.
The individual was not their criminal alien target. However, he was a 35-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico who had ten previous traffic violations – including driving without a license.
“The officer made the determination using prosecutorial discretion that he would charge (the suspect) as being in the United States illegally and let the judge sort it out,” Crane said.
“That’s our place in the universe,” he said. “We’re supposed to make arrests and let the judges and the legal system sort through the details.”
Instead, two supervising officers, including the acting field director, intervened and ordered the officer to release the illegal immigrant. The acting field director sat down with the illegal and explained that he was going to be let go because he was not a “presidential priority,” Crane said.
In essence, the supervising officers took on the role of a public defender.
“You had the supervisors intervening with the alien to assist the alien and counsel the alien on avoiding receiving a charging document,” he said.
The officer’s supervisors ordered the officer to release the illegal – an order the officer refused.
According to a “Notice of Proposed Suspension,” dated July 19, the officer “failed to follow these supervisory instructions, when you arrested a non-targeted alien who did not appear to meet any of the ICE priorities.”
A memorandum from Assistant Field Office Director David O’Neill, written the morning of the incident, reveals that the officers were told to release the subject even though he was in the country illegally.
The officer “became agitated and began to raise his voice and stated that he would not do as instructed,” O’Neill wrote in his memo.
As a result of disobeying the order to release a known criminal, the officer faces a three-day suspension and could ultimately lose his job and pension if he arrests another illegal not on the Obama administration’s priority list.
This is utter lawlessness — but worse, it’s designed and intentional lawlessness, because many in law enforcement want to do their jobs. Or at least, what were their jobs, before Obama decided, by fiat, which illegals are breaking the law and which aren’t. Leaving our borders wide open. And leaving the US at a greater risk of a terrorist attack.
And the states most immediately affected? Have no recourse for self-protection — at least, not under a spanking new reading of the Constitution.
Reached for comment, Super Federalist Chief Justice John Roberts wanted to remind us all that, unfortunate though such an incident may be, it’s really not his problem, and “at least my court is very bipartisan and shiny!”
(h/t bh)
why are we surprised when the Obama admin has been deliberately arming Mexican cartels? Let illegals go with the phrase “presidential priority” and they can then show their gratitude by showing up at the polls with other illegal family and friends and vote.
Whats a few illegal votes anyway? They are here, they need their needs represented.
GO OBAMA!
Whatshisllama, the new President of Mexico says he is going to legalize drugs. Does that mean our bad guys will have to cross into their country to score and then try to smuggle it back here to El Norte?
Will their Federales keep shooting drug traffickers out of habit or will the body count decline through attrition?
Leaving aside how disgusting and terrifying this is, I can’t believe we’re supposed to trust the government can have an “official” list of who is bad. What, it’s a database of all illegals running which one of them has purchased health insurance?
Don’t F***** die like this America, fight back.
So long as they don’t get their cut, Mexican “cops” will fight traffickers of any sort.
Yeah, it was a rhetorical question anyway. I can remember being in Ensenada at two in the morning and asking a “cop” for directions to a hotel. He was wearing a uniform, drinking a beer and talking to prostitutes while he gave me the directions.
The more illegals cross over, the more they can sign up for our state benefits. And the more they sign up for state benefits, the faster we can get this Cloward-Piven thing over with.
And if they happen to be narcotraficantes or shahid, all the better. Saves the trouble of emptying the prisons when we really need that chaos to ensue.
When law enforcement doesn’t respect law enforcement, I don’t see how they should be surprised when the rest of us write them off as illegitimate lackeys of the illegitimate State.
This is all going to end so well…
I’ll promise you this…if Obama is defeated this election… If the American people send him on his way…there is gonna be a whole sh-t pile of information coming out on what was really going on inside that White House of his and Jarrett’s. People will have the guts to speak out – openly. And they won’t be alone. They will be able to do it without the fear that hangs over them now – all of us…how scary sh-t is right now.
And when all that truth starts to come out…people…the ones willing to listen and understand…they are gonna realize just how close the country…how close we were to the darkness. The future that was gonna be ripped away from their kids and grandkids. And how their votes against Obama saved America. How they saved that future. In the end…like I told you…in the end when the country is in real crisis – it always comes down to the American people to save it.
Godd—mit then – let’s get to it. Let’s save America.
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