Thread: NUMBERSUSA-Urgent Action Help the ICE Agents Protest Petition

Urgent Action
Roy Beck

Want to fight back against the Obama amnesty that started today? Help the federal immigration agents with their protest petition!


What a great discovery tonight on the website of the union that represents ICE agents! (ICE is the Immigration and Customs Enforcement section of the Department of Homeland Security.)

I'm sure you are as frustrated as the rest of us to be listening and seeing all the news today about the start of a two-year amnesty for up to 1.8 million under-30 illegal aliens. It's as if nobody has a way to stand up to the Administration's increasingly brazen unilateral decisions to ignore -- and even violate -- congressionally passed immigration laws.

Well, the ICE union has stepped up to take the lead today. It's only a first step. But let's join to make it a powerful one. Fight back here with petition



Federal immigration law enforcement agents are boldly challenging their bosses in the Administration. Today, they have put up a petition on their website that protests what they consider to be threats of punishment if they don't follow orders to violate immigration laws passed by Congress.

The union's website invites the public to sign the petition and stand behind these courageous immigration agents. Sign their petition. Then ask all your friends to sign it.
Sign ICE Union's Protest Petition


The petition is addressed to ICE Director John Morton.

He is the author of the infamous Morton Memo of a year ago that provided the framework for the Department of Homeland Security's actions beginning today in accepting applications for the mini-DREAM amnesty.

The Morton Memo broadened the concept of pros ecutorial discretion to the point that huge classes of illegal aliens could be exempted by the Administration from having to obey immigration laws.

But ICE agents are finding that the Administration's new rules actually don't give them much discretion at all.
The Administration's supposed prosecutorial discretion is in fact the absolute loss of discretion by ICE agents to do anything except ignore the law.


The ICE union website states

Reports are now emerging of ICE agents using their prosecutorial discretion, but then being punished if they determine an illegal alien should be put in deportation proceedings.

A veteran ICE agent recen tly arrested an illegal alien who had 10 traffic violations. The ICE agent determined, in his discretion, the alien did not fit within the outline of the Morton memo or the Executive DREAM Order and initiated deportation proceedings.

The agent's supervisors overruled him and ordered him to release the illegal alien.

As a result of attempting to do his job, the agent in question is now facing a three-day suspension. If suspended now, this military veteran and eighteen year federal law enforcement officer will be fired and lose all retirement benefits earned if he attempts to exercise prosecutorial discretion again in the future.


Please help your friends and neighbors understand that the ability of ICE agents to enforce our immigration laws is the ONLY thing that stands between Americans enjoying their current wages and standard of living or seeing wages deteriorate toward low global averages.

Without those who enforce immigration laws, our nation would be swamped with additional millions of citizens of other countries competing for U.S. jobs and driving all wages toward minimum wage.

Not surprisingly, a union would recognize the threat to all American workers if ICE agents don't have the discretion to actually enforce immigration laws.

I was thrilled to see that the union for ICE agents has taken the lead today in pushing back.

Won't you please do everything you can to spread the word about this petition through email, on websites and through Talk Radio?

Here is what the union asks the public:

Sign this petition to John Morton telling him that he should be encouraging ICE agents to enforce the laws duly enacted by Congress. Law enforcement officers should NEVER be punished for upholding the law.


It looks like the petition may have just gone up because there are only a few signers (other than the top officers of the union, whose names you will see on the petition page). Make sure that Janet Napolitano and the rest of the pro-amnesty leaders at DHS see thousands of signers when the union website is sure to be brought to their attention Thursday morning.

THANKS,


https://www.numbersusa.com/content/n...tion-orders-di


petitions.iceunion.org/petitions

Done!
22675 have signed the petition already!

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Originally Posted by Kiara

Done!
22675 have signed the petition already!

DITTO!

I signed it and sent it to someone else to sign.

Welcome JR1955

Signed and fowarded to friends.

CAPS Alert! Join ICE agents in their amnesty protest by signing their petition

The Obama administration has not only unilaterally instituted a two-year amnesty for a large body of illegal aliens, but has also threatened immigration agents who seek to enforce our laws. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents report that they are subject to punishment if they determine that an alien does not meet the amnesty criteria and is subject to deportation proceedings. The ICE union states that a veteran agent arrested an illegal alien who had ten traffic violations. The ICE agent determined that the alien did not fit within the parameters of the Executive DREAM Order and initiated deportation proceedings. According to the union, “The agent’s supervisors overruled him and ordered him to release the illegal alien…. The agent in question is now facing … suspension.” Please sign the petition to ICE Director John Morton and ask your friends to join you in this protest: http://petitions.iceunion.org/petitions The petition states, in part: By threatening your law enforcement officers with suspension for exercising their discretion, you are sending the message that … ICE officers are required to turn a blind eye anytime they encounter any illegal alien who has not been convicted of a specific violent crime, regardless of how dangerous that alien may be. Again, please join these gutsy ICE agents in protesting administrative action that threatens America’s well-being.

46527 have signed the petition already!

NEED MORE PETITION SIGNERS

This Issue: As 2-year executive amnesty begins, immigration agents step up opposition to being barred from enforcing the law -- WE HAVE TO HELP THEM


I sent out a late Wednesday night alert about the ICE agents' union asking the public to sign its protest petition. (Most of you haven't signed it yet. Please go there now at Sign this Petition | National ICE Council.)

The petition against the Administration's nullification of immigration laws (that includes the mass 2-year amnesties that began being handed out Wednesday) is toughly worded. But ICE union officials have now come out with even stronger words against their federal bosses who won't allow them to do their job of enforcing laws that Congress passes.

"ICE agents are now under orders to ignore the law as well as threats to public safety and fraud," the union leaders say in a new press release about their members who work for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) section of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

"Those officers who refuse to follow the Administration's unlawful orders by making arrests will be disciplined and lose their jobs, as well as the ability to support their families," the union statement says.. "The National ICE Council representing approximately 7,200 ICE Agents, Officers and employees were the first to sign the petition on behalf of those that they represent in hopes that through public support ICE, DHS and the Administration can be convinced to take a more responsible approach to law enforcement and cease their collective efforts to devastate and demoralize federal law enforcement officers and their families."

While ICE agents have been ordered to stand aside, we have witnessed this week a steady stream of images of tens of thousands of illegal aliens lined up in public to sign up for work permits to compete in the legal job market against the millions of unemployed young Americans. Estimates are that 1.7 million illegal aliens could get the reward of these work permits even though Congress has three times voted down bills to give out these work permits.

"Morale is in the toilet right now," according to Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council. "Most of the guys out in the field are just in an uproar."

The ICE agents feel the only way they may be able to survive as a legitimate enforcement entity to protect all of us from another mass wave of illegal immigration is to show the Administration that the public stands with the agents -- and against the anti-security policies of the Department of Homeland Security. That's why it is so urgent that you sign the petition now and circulate it far and wide. The agents are extremely pleased to have the 30,000 signatures since Wednesday, but they need hundreds of thousands of signatures (at least) if they are going to have any real protection in their challenge against the Administration.

The union officers say ICE Agents and Officers nationwide "are now under threat of disciplinary action, up to and including the loss of their jobs and retirements, simply for attempting to enforce federal laws."

Let's do all we can to help our nation's immigration enforcement officers.Roy Beck
Fri, Aug 17th

Sign this Petition | National ICE Council