Thread: Statement of 9/11 FSA on the Nomination Of Julie Myers

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Statement of 9/11 FSA on the Nomination Of Julie Myers to Lead ICE

September 21, 2005

For immediate releaseContact: Joan Molinaro (570) 685 7054

The members of 9/11 Families for a Secure America are appalled by President Bush's nomination of Julie Myers to head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Ms Myers is completely unqualified to lead the agency that is supposed to keep illegal aliens and the unknown terrorists among them from entering the United States.

With this nomination Mr. Bush continues his record of appointing unqualified individuals to positions of importance in America's immigration bureaucracy.

The purpose of our immigration laws is to prevent dangerous aliens from entering our country. Failure of our government to enforce immigration laws played a large role in permitting 19 Arab terrorists to murder our loved ones on September 11, 2001. The 9/11 attacks should have enlightened Mr. Bush on the need to staff our immigration agency only with people who have demonstrated the ability and willingness to enforce immigration law.

If President Bush is serious about securing our borders and keeping the American people safe from terrorists, 911 Families for a Secure America has the perfect candidate, a person of absolute integrity with three decades of experience in immigration law enforcement. His knowledge is recognized by Members of Congress, who have often invited him to testify before congressional hearings. He has also written many articles on the issues of secure borders and secure identity documents.

Mr. Cutler spent thirty years with ICE's predecessor agency, the INS, retiring as Senior Special Agent. In that capacity he worked with members of other law enforcement agencies including the FBI, DEA, ATF, U.S. Customs and local and state police as well as law enforcement organizations of other countries including Israel, Canada, Great Britain and Japan. He conducted investigations of aliens involved in major drug trafficking organizations which ultimately resulted in the seizure of their assets as well as their arrest and successful prosecutions for a wide variety of criminal violations.

9/11 FSA calls on President Bush to fulfill the promise he made on the ruins of the World Trade Center when he said: "I hear you." Hear us now and appoint someone who is truly competent to lead ICE and help prevent more 9/11 terrorism.

thats great 9/11 FSA . Good move. I emailed my reps about this latest gravy bowl licking.

Frankly folks, julies nomination is a clue, and furthur proof that there are no terrorists, and we need only get out of the middle east and things will improve.

If it was such a threat, and I never did believe it, it is high time to review the downing of the towers and see if wasn't some kind of inside job.

If that "conspiracy theory" is one that you like less than the governments' full holes "conspiracy theory" with the 19 hijackers with boxcutters, then we would have to assume that this administration has gone mad to allow border security to be so lax. Or they knew it was going to happen (like Pearl Harbor) and made hay of it when it did.

Or "they" orchestrated it, the most ghastly of options.

Either way, what is it going to take? They are either complicit in not defending us, because they lie about the threat, or they are totally incompetent, evidenced by julies appointment. What's it gonna be AMERICA? Stop being STUPID! cheers glenn

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/ne ... 708530.htm

Posted on Thu, Sep. 22, 2005

An unqualified nominee for a top job
OUR OPINION: SEASONED PROFESSIONAL NEEDED TO LEAD KEY DHS AGENCY

Even in the surreal world of Washington politics, this is hard to believe: A Senate committee could approve a person with virtually no law-enforcement or immigration experience to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, one of the most troubled and critical agencies on the front lines of national security.

Qualifications, professionalism and a solid track record should be the key factors in filling such a top government job -- not political connections. Julie L. Myers, a lawyer who has held numerous staff jobs at the White House and Justice, Customs and Treasury Departments, is not qualified to lead ICE, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security.

Ms. Myers, 36, briefly worked for DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff when he was at Justice, is married to Mr. Chertoff's current chief of staff and is the niece of Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff. Those are nice associations to have, but they aren't qualifications for a job requiring an ability to protect our country from terrorists, drug-traffickers and others wishing us harm.

Lawmakers and President Bush, who nominated Ms. Myers for the ICE job in June, should take a cue from the Michael Brown fiasco. A political appointee with insider connections, Mr. Brown resigned as the FEMA chief after his inexperience and lack of qualifications became all too clear in the bungled response to Hurricane Katrina. The same mistakes should not be courted with ICE, the agency tasked with keeping terrorists from entering or staying in the country.

ICE includes the Border Patrol, which is key to controlling illegal immigration; all immigration detention and deportation operations; immigration inspectors who screen foreign visitors at U.S. ports; and customs operations, among other services. The head of ICE will manage 22,000 employees and a $4 billion budget. In Ms. Myers' most-related job, she managed 170 employees and a $25 million budget for a year as assistant secretary for export enforcement at the Commerce Department.

That's simply not enough managerial or law-enforcement experience to qualify her to run ICE. Nor does having worked on money-laundering and drug-smuggling cases give her the policing know-how essential for the person who will lead the nation's largest law-enforcement operation. Also troubling is her lack of experience with U.S. immigration law or enforcement -- a system so complex and dysfunctional that it confounds seasoned experts.

Senators should reject Ms. Myers' nomination. The person to head ICE needs to be a field- and time-tested leader who understands the tough challenges that immigration and customs enforcement entail.

http://www.nationalreview.com/editorial ... 221416.asp

September 22, 2005, 2:16 p.m.
Withdraw Myers


Just three days after Michael Brown resigned as head of Federal Emergency Management Administration because of the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, the Senate held a hearing for another unqualified nominee for a vital position in the Department of Homeland Security. The president’s supporters can look forward to serving in his administration, but certain key jobs ought to be reserved for candidates whose personal connections don’t outweigh their professional qualifications.

Julie L. Myers has been nominated by the White House to lead U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a vast bureau with more than 20,000 employees and a budget of $4 billion. As head of ICE, Myers would be in charge of detaining and removing illegal aliens; investigating alien smuggling, illegal arms exports, and money laundering; fining the employers of illegal aliens (well, actually they don’t bother with that any more); plus many, many other responsibilities. She would be the officer chiefly responsible for protecting the nation against terrorist threats once they have succeeded in infiltrating our borders, which are guarded by a different bureaucracy. Her most relevant previous experience was managing only 170 employees and a $25 million budget while at the Commerce department.

Given the importance of the position and a history of mismanagement in the immigration service, Congress took the unusual step of inserting a statutory requirement that nominees have a minimum of five years of experience in both management and law enforcement. Even a cursory reading of her resume reveals that the well-connected 36-year-old attorney’s background fails to comply with this legal requirement; in fact, she meets the bare minimum only by counting her current stint in White House Personnel, where she manages, by her own account, “up to three deputies as well as support staff and interns.�

It’s not entirely fair to compare Myers to Brown. Managing horse shows had no connection to the work of FEMA, whereas Myers’s experience at the departments of Justice, Commerce, and Treasury does bear on some of the work of ICE. In a future Republican administration, after she has acquired more experience, she might be an outstanding choice for this job. But naming her at this stage in her career, especially given her connections, smacks of cronyism.

Her nomination highlights the administration’s desire to keep immigration enforcement on a short leash, lest some rogue official embarrass the White House by actually enforcing the immigration law. It exposes the administration to yet another Michael Brown fiasco if, as is eventually likely, a terrorist eludes the demoralized immigration agents at ICE on his way to killing Americans.


“The response of House Republicans
to any talk of new immigration
programs has been
‘Enforcement First.’�

Columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin has suggested a much better pick for the ICE job: Peter Nuñez â€â€