By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Monday, April 22, 2013

The chief of the union representing immigration agents and officers said Monday that senators listened to illegal immigrants and those who stand to earn millions of dollars from an amnesty, but refused to listen to the government’s own law enforcement agents.

“Senators invite illegal aliens to testify before Congress,” said Christopher Crane, chief of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council, the union that represents ICE agents and officers. “”But American citizens working as law enforcement officers within our nation’s broken immigration system are purposely excluded from the process.”

Mr. Crane had been begging for months to talk to the so-called “Gang of Eight” senators who wrote the new immigration bill, and to talk with the White House.

Both the senators and the White House declined to hear from him, he said, though Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican who was one of the eight senators who wrote the bill, did talk with Mr. Crane several days before the bill was introduced.

On Monday, Mr. Crane finally got his chance to talk to Congress, appearing as one of about 20 witnesses called to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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