Thread: Backlash Builds Over Homeland Security Program

Sep 1, 2010 6:12 pm US/Eastern Backlash Builds Over Homeland Security Program
Reporting Tiffani Helberg
MIAMI (CBS4) ― AP

As detention facilities and immigration courts bursting at the seams, the Department of Homeland Security is revamping it system to give amnesty to thousands of undocumented immigrants.

Currently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyers are reviewing cases. The ones that involve detained immigrants could be dismissed if they meet the following conditions: the person must have been living in the U.S. for at least two years, does not have a criminal history and has a strong case.

"It's better for everybody," said an undocumented immigrant who didn't want to be identified.

Cheryl Little from the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami said it's a win-win situation for everyone.

"It's a win for ice because they can focus their scarce resources on targeting dangerous criminals," she said. "It's a win for immigration judges who have been complaining for years about the enormous back log of cases and it's certainly a win for immigrants who could benefit from this because they'll be spared the often terrifying experience of appearing in court before an immigration judge."

The reforms also focus on improving detention conditions for undocumented immigrants. It is a revamp of the system that has outraged some ICE agents.

Seven thousand of them signed a vote of no confidence in their leadership.

In part it reads, "This action reflects the growing dissatisfaction and concern among ICE employees and Union leaders that Director John Morton and Assistant Director Phyllis Coven have abandoned the Agency's core mission of enforcing United States Immigration Laws and providing for public safety, and have instead directed their 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 United States citizens similarly incarcerated."

Click here to read the full ICE no confidence statement.

ICE union representatives did not respond to CBS4 requests for an interview. But the Department of Homeland Security issued this statement:

ICE meets regularly with representatives of the union to discuss our goal of ensuring public safety by focusing on finding criminal aliens and removing them from the country. We have fundamentally reformed immigration enforcement and we are removing record numbers of criminal aliens because of it. We understand the union's reason for engaging in creative collective bargaining tactics and regardless, we remain committed to working with them to address substantive issues in the interests of making our communities safer.

http://cbs4.com/local/immigration.polic ... 91731.html

I think that they are letting them go so that they can VOTE!!!

[quote="Newmexican"]I think that they are letting them go so that they can VOTE!!![/quote

I agree!!

The vote of no confidence letter

http://static.cbslocal.com/station/wfor ... cevote.pdf

Originally Posted by Newmexican

I think that they are letting them go so that they can VOTE!!!

Releasing them, or giving them amnesty, doesn't give them instant citizenship with the right to vote.

It only lets them be here legally.

They will have to apply for citizenship, have a background check, learn English, take the citizenship test, pay fines, etc. before they can get their citizenship, and the right to register to vote. Proof of citizenship is required to register to vote.

FLORIDA

Who Can Register to Vote

In order to register to vote in Florida, you must:

1.Be a citizen of the United States of America;
2.Be a Florida resident;
3.Be 18 years old (you may pre-register to vote if you are 16 years old, but you cannot vote until you are 18 years old).
4.Not now be adjudicated mentally incapacitated with respect to voting in Florida or any other state;
5.Not have been convicted of a felony without your civil rights having been restored; and
6.Provide your current and valid Florida driver’s license number or Florida identification card number. You must provide the last four digits of your Social Security Number if you do not have a Florida driver’s license number or a Florida identification card number. If you do not have any of these items, you must mark the box indicated on the Voter Registration Application as “NONE.â€

As detention facilities and immigration courts bursting at the seams, the Department of Homeland Security is revamping it system to give amnesty to thousands of undocumented immigrants.

Currently, Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyers are reviewing cases. The ones that involve detained immigrants could be dismissed if they meet the following conditions: the person must have been living in the U.S. for at least two years, does not have a criminal history and has a strong case.

GARBAGE! ILLEGAL'S WHO LIVED HERE FOR JUST TWO YEARS??? TWO YEARS??? GIVE ME A BREAK!

THAT IS OUTRIGHT CHEATING BY DHS! They have no right to off-handedly release these offenders due to the fact they can't retain them.

DHS is the one that NEEDS TO BE REVAMPED not the immigration system they are purposely dismissing.
American citizens should sue DHS for failure to perform its national duty.

Originally Posted by ShockedinCalifornia

. . .THAT IS OUTRIGHT CHEATING BY DHS! They have no right to off-handedly release these offenders due to the fact they can't retain them.

DHS is the one that NEEDS TO BE REVAMPED not the immigration system they are purposely dismissing.
American citizens should sue DHS for failure to perform its national duty.

D.H.S. didn't make this decision, congress and the White House tells them what to do.
And just like any other job, if they don't do what they are told they get fired.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Originally Posted by Newmexican

I think that they are letting them go so that they can VOTE!!!

Releasing them, or giving them amnesty, doesn't give them instant citizenship with the right to vote.

It only lets them be here legally.

They will have to apply for citizenship, have a background check, learn English, take the citizenship test, pay fines, etc. before they can get their citizenship, and the right to register to vote. Proof of citizenship is required to register to vote.

Not necessarily. I've seen attempts by illegals to vote. Our local clerk of court uses voter roles to summon juries. She repeatedly gets back juror summons cards with "not a citizen" written across them. ACORN came through here last election with the expected results. At least the goldfish was purged from the voter list.

JohnDoe22 wrote:

They will have to apply for citizenship, have a background check, learn English, take the citizenship test, pay fines, etc. before they can get their citizenship, and the right to register to vote. Proof of citizenship is required to register to vote.

That is what the law says, but these people don't follow our laws - they do what they want.

You can not convince me that in certain districts - the illegals vote - I am convinced that they voted in Colorado to elect Salazar to this first term(2.6 million first time voters registered) as a Senator and I believe that they voted in the last elections, compliments of the Union sponsored and LaRaza sponsored voting drives.

Who know, maybe the Executive Order amnesty is coming BEFORE the elections and they want to make sure they are still in the country - just a theory of mine, just pure speculation....