ICE Whistleblower: Obama's slashing of deportations puts citizens at risk

Jim Kouri
Law Enforcement Examiner
October 27, 2011

ICE union president Chris Crane told the congressmen that the new ICE policy puts both the public and ICE agents at risk.

In order to slash the number of deportations and arrests for traffic offenses or lack of proper identification, law enforcement agencies in a major U.S. county are accepting Mexican-issued Matricula Consular cards --determined by the FBI to be unreliable and highly susceptible to fraud -- as a valid identification instrument.

This situation comes just a few days after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) union president, Chris Crane, told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration that agents have been ordered by ICE headquarters not to arrest illegal aliens who do not have a prior criminal conviction. That includes fugitives who have been ordered deported by an immigration judge or are individuals who have illegally re-entered the United States after being deported and thus have perpetrated a felony punishable by up to 20-years in federal prison.


ICE agents are finding themselves at odds with their superiors including President Obama. Credit: DHS/CBP

“From a law enforcement standpoint what could be the possible benefit?â€