The National ICE Council, the union which represents more than 7,000 Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers is not allowing its members to take part in training ordered by the Obama administration which would facilitate a large reduction in the deportation of illegal aliens.
The training in question was ordered to implement the agency’s new policy known as “prosecutorial discretion,” which was announced by ICE director John Morton in a June 17 memo. That now, infamous document informed officials that they no longer have to deport illegal aliens if they are enrolled in any type of education program, if their family members have volunteered for U.S. military service, if they have filed a civil rights lawsuit or even if they are pregnant or nursing.
Union president Chris Crane has been highly critical of Obama’s drastic change in policy and testified before Congress that it amounts to ignoring the law for votes.
In October, Crane told a House Judiciary subcommittee: “Law enforcement and public safety have taken a back seat to attempts to satisfy immigrant advocacy groups
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