Posted on 02/05/2016 10:29:18 AM PST by xzins
In a shocking reversal of policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are being told to release illegal immigrants and no longer order them to appear at deportation hearings, essentially a license to stay in the United States, a key agent testified Thursday.
What's more, the stand down order includes a requirement that the whereabouts of illegals released are not to be tracked.
"We might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether," suggested agent Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council.
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Testifying on the two-year border surge of immigrant youths, Judd said the policy shift was prompted by Obama administration "embarrassment" that just over half of illegals ordered to appear in court actually do.
"The willful failure to show up for court appearances by persons that were arrested and released by the Border Patrol has become an extreme embarrassment for the Department of Homeland Security. It has been so embarrassing that DHS and the U.S. attorney's office has come up with a new policy," he testified before the immigration subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee.
The biggest change: Undocumented immigrants are no longer given a "notice to appear" order, because they simply ignore them. Judd said that border agents jokingly refer to the NTAs as "notices to disappear."
The Department of Homeland Security, however, said that the government continues to be strict on the border.
"The U.S. Border Patrol continues to enforce immigration laws consistent with the department's enforcement priorities, which are focused on border security, national security, and public safety. As secretary [Jeh] Johnson has said many times, our border is not open to illegal migration and those who do so will be sent back," said spokesman Michael Friel.
He added, "The Border Patrol's resources are most effectively focused on the border – prioritizing the apprehension and removal of individuals attempting to unlawfully enter the United States. Our removal numbers reflect that. Border Patrol agents are issuing Notices to Appear, consistent with law, regulation, and the department's enforcement priorities."
Judd said the the new policy "makes mandatory the release, without an NTA, of any person arrested by the Border Patrol for being in the country illegally, as long as they do not have a previous felony arrest conviction and as long as they claim to have been continuously in the United States since January of 2014. The operative word in this policy is 'claim.' The policy does not require the person to prove they have been here which is the same burden placed on them during deportation proceedings. Instead, it simply requires them to claim to have been here since January of 2014."
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But even then, he added, the agency has been told not to track the illegals.
"Not only do we release these individuals that by law are subject to removal proceedings, we do it without any means of tracking their whereabouts. Agents believe this exploitable policy was set in place because DHS was embarrassed at the sheer number of those who choose not to follow the law by showing up for their court appearances. In essence, we pull these persons out of the shadows and into the light just to release them right back to those same shadows from whence they came," he said.
The go free policy, he said, has prompted thousands of Latinos to cross the border, and among them are hundreds of criminal foot soldiers, according to other testimony.
"Immigration laws today appear to be mere suggestions. There are little or no consequences for breaking the laws and that fact is well known in other countries. If government agencies like DHS or CBP are allowed to bypass Congress by legislating through policy, we might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether," Judd concluded.
Never let an election distraction go to waste!
But, but, Kenyan is Christian!
And, who cares if the nation is flooded with those beloved of Jeb Bush.
In fact, Jeb and Barry are best Buds.
Yeah. Par for the course.
But there will be a huge number of highly publicized heartstring-pulling stories of long time illegals being deported to trump up sympathy for the sad plight of the poor oppressed illegal aliens.
We all know this is going on.
I wont waste another minute raising my blood pressure of this sinister traitor. we need to survive till November.
and then we get to hear why obama can’t turn over the mantle.
because i can’t picture him handing it over to Cruz or Trump.
He is NOT of our ways. Formative years in Kenya, doesn’t care about democracy or america.
But that would mean we’d have to overthrow him
Build the wall, deport the illegals, and make mexico pay the costs one way or another.
Only on person has been hammering this home. The rest are a bunch of CofC CFR squishes.
Now, it’s even worse. That Zika Virus sounds like something right out of a Science Fiction movie.
Border agent will be fired for telling the truth. Meanwhile ....
Why do I get the unpleasant feeling that that is the goal of this administration.
As I have stated before, one of the issues before SCOTUS now ( on the illegal amnesty case) and effects this illegal order is when is the Constitutional “Faithful Discharge†of the laws of the United States violated by the president. The principle of Prosecutorial discretion does not apply to entire statutes enacted by Congress and signed into law by a president. It applies only to discretionary application of the law on a case by case basis depending on such things as individual case facts or case load. To simply ignore the immigration laws that are passed is as repugnant as making up a new law. The SCOTUS case will ratify the constitution or destroy it. Always remember that our new republican president will also have a “pen and a phone†Obama is a dictatorial tyrant who should have been removed by impeachment but for the flaccid republicrat weaklings.
Talking to PCSO deputies and local BP, I am hearing that illegal immigration is down, at least in this area. What is up is drug smuggling. Listing to the scanner, I hear the deputies chasing and arresting smugglers several times a week. Not quite daily but several times a week. Wednesday night, 2 miles as the crow flies from my house.
My question is, are the Congressional “investigators” simply focusing on the illegal immigrants as a red herring for the drugs pouring over the border.
My answers is; Hell yes.
Zika virus is a big hype.
Gangs and cartels are real and actually murder and especially people.
What folks had better wake up to is that we only have one candidate in the race willing to enforce immigration laws, Ted Cruz. He is the only one who says they will deported and not let back in. Every agency that has any contact with someone here illegally will have to report it to ICE. Illegals will not be able to apply for social services, get healthcare, drivers licenses, enroll in school or apply for a job without being reported to ICE.
Trump and Rubio are both soft on illegal immigration. Rubio won’t do anything but legalize them. Trump will deport, then expedite them back in to become Democrat voters.
I agree with Cruz. If we have to deport them, they should never be allowed back into this country.
Jail to court to bus. How could they not show up?
Sneak back in, you get sent over the border via trebuchet.
The Zika virus was simply carried with the distribution of illegals throughout our country when they were shuffled here and there over the objections of the American people.
“Oh no” the authorities and commentariat lament, “How could it have happened?”
Idiots. You BROUGHT people in from those regions and distributed them around the country. Where the heck to you think it came from? Is there something strong than DOLT?
Democrats want your daughter shot at the beach American.
(In Unison) "We might as well abolish our immigration laws"
...after rapefugees shall have had their way with her.
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