Posted on 04/14/2018 12:23:02 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
From the outside, Homan might have seemed a surprising choice to lead ICE, a 20,000-person division of the Department of Homeland Security that deports more than 200,000 people per year. During the Obama administration, Homan had won the highest civil service award after effectively enforcing the more limited deportation priorities that Trump rose to power attacking. But Kelly appeared to know something that had long been clear to many of Homan’s colleagues: Homan did not like that the Obama administration had told his officers whom they should and shouldn’t arrest.
Since taking over as acting director of ICE, Homan has gone from being a mostly anonymous civil servant to one of the most combative defenders of Trump’s immigration agenda. He has appeared on Fox News to say that politicians who limit cooperation with ICE should be charged with crimes and has staged retaliatory operations against their cities in the meantime. ICE arrests were up 41 percent last year and 171 percent among people without criminal records. ICE is now pursuing even the most sympathetic undocumented immigrants. That is part of Homan’s goal. Testifying before Congress last year, he warned, “If you’re in this country illegally…you should be uncomfortable. You should look over your shoulder, and you need to be worried.”
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I don't think of him being a sleeper. Rather, he is doing his job. I was in the military for many years and now I am in the Federal Govt. As long as it is not illegal or unethical, I am going to follow orders. Now the initiative or focus I have is a different matter.
So Homan supports equal enforcement of the Law, what an Evil guy.
Apparently MJN thinks that govt employees should be allowed to use their jobs to support their personal leftwing socio-political agendas.
Recently, I read an interesting article about a forgotten Naval regulation that was passed in the 1930s. The regulation stated that new Naval officers could not get married for their first two years of service. If they got married they were to be released from Naval service. In a time when promiscuity was punished and early marriage was the norm, it was very unpopular. While there are no records of how many Naval officers were released from service, no one from that time could remember anyone.
The author of the article (It was printed right after WWII.) was one such officer. After a year of marriage, this office could not ethically live a lie, so he and his wife went to his ship captain's house and introduced his wife to his commanding officer. The Commanding Officer, a Navy Captain, looked at the young Ensign and said, "Sir, I do not understand your ramblings. You make no sense. You need to go home and rest. And take this wonderful young lady with you."
That is my take on it too.
He’s Officer McGruff, enforcing the LAW like it ought to be.
Does anyone other than me see the problem here???
My thought exactly. Sounds like featherbedding to me.
Wear that when going to the polls on Election Day. :-)
I know what you mean - 24 years in uniform and then 15 years working as DOD Civilian..
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