Posted on 06/23/2019 8:20:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: ICE director tells Pirro real reason raids were halted. Confirms ‘green light’ to remove illegal immigrants
Acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Mark Morgan confirmed Saturday that blame for the unexpected delay in the agency’s planned immigration raids partially rests with the media.
“The media got a hold of some operational specifics, and they reported it,” he said to Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro. “It’s egregious and it puts the lives of the officers and agents at risk. The men and women at ICE are true American heroes. The president recognized that. He postponed it to protect them.”
He issued the confirmation hours after President Donald Trump announced an unexpected two-week postponement of immigration raids that were originally slated to occur Sunday.
In a series of tweets posted Saturday afternoon, the president claimed that he’d delayed the raids “[a]t the request of Democrats”:
While this is certainly true — Morgan confirmed it later in the interview Saturday — reports have emerged suggesting that this was a secondary, less important reason, and that the primary reason the raids were delayed was because somebody within ICE leaked details of them to the press.
And as usual, the press rushed to publish the details to the entire world — just like they did roughly a week earlier when they outed potentially classified information about the Pentagon’s cyber operations against Russia. The president responded to that leak by screaming “treason.”
While it remains unclear who exactly leaked information on ICE’s raids, both former acting ICE Director Thomas Homan and five other anonymous Trump administration officials believe acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan may be responsible..
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Won't change the minds of the Trump-haters.
The press is not the leakers. They simply published what leakers gave them. The sources need to be found, charged with treason, convicted, and hanged. We need to put some serious fear into people to no leak operational information, to not leak.
Take the leaker and parachute him into central Teheran
The leaker turns out to be the acting head of DHS.
Kind of a big problem.
We can’t get anything done without first contending with a seditious band of rogue bureaucrats, it seems.
The process of getting rid of them should be streamlined for mass production.
Exactly right, there are hundreds of Hussein-heads throughout our government determined to thwart Making America Great Again.
People with final deportation orders are the very least we should expect to be removed, they already had their day in court.
Has the leaker got a “book deal” pending?
Left wing locals giving advanced warning again.
FBI Wray, now acting DHS, who recommends these people to Trump????
Well, didn’t see that coming ... thanks for the heads up.
rats you leaked the plan....I wish!
Don’t see a good outcome on this removal plan.
For example, say the ICE guys show up to remove an illegal or family of illegals. Media gets told about it and are there to stage a “dramatic” event.
Remember Elian Gonzalez and his removal from the closet? Bad optics.
It could easily be played by the rat bastard media to portray our President in a negative light.
I think it needs to be acknowledged that the press often commits acts of bribery to get access to classified information. See: Ali Watkins.
In this particular case, that’s probably not the motivation - I’m sure it’s the usual bureaucratic sedition we’ve come to know and love over the past couple of years. But in general it is not safe to assume the press is behaving in unimpeachable fashion.
Sir/Madam,
Just because someone disagrees with the President or laments at one thing or another does not make them an “anti-Trumper”.
Apparently you have never taken a course in civics.
Please do some remedial reading in that area. Maybe engaging others in a discussion will yield better results than name calling.
That’s ridiculous, sorry.
Two leaks. Not one.
By your reasoning, the press could NEVER be guilty of putting Americans in danger.
“both former acting ICE Director Thomas Homan and five other anonymous Trump administration officials believe acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan may be responsible..”
Kevin McAleenan, another worthless appointment. Trump’s poor quality, disloyal appointees are undoing his directives.
who recommends these people to Trump
Javanka.
This is what happens when the rule of law is not enforced. Barr better start holding these traitors accountable or the country is over.
I notice you didn’t admit you were wrong.
Typical Never-Trumper. You and George Will would make a cute couple.
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