Posted on 07/30/2007 6:08:23 AM PDT by JKrive
Federal immigration officials say they lack the resources to fulfill a proposed mandate by Virginia lawmakers to train staff at every state jail to start deportation procedures for illegal aliens.
"I cannot make that commitment to Virginia," said William F. Reid, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Washington field office.
Mr. Reid told members of the State Crime Commission's illegal-immigration task force at a meeting Tuesday in Richmond that the state's request would be evaluated against nationwide requests.
Twenty-two law-enforcement agencies nationwide have entered formal agreements with ICE to complete the training, authorized under Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, agency spokesman Richard Rocha said.
More than 65 other agencies have requested 287(g) training, he said.
ICE requested $26.4 million for 287(g) training from Congress for its fiscal 2008 budget, which would fund the training of 250 state and local law-enforcement officers, 350 jail beds and enforcement-related technology.
On Thursday, the Senate passed its version of the homeland security spending bill for 2008, which includes an additional $5.4 million for the 287(g) program. The bill also allows money left over from $3 billion in emergency border- and interior-enforcement funding to go to the training program.
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We have an employee that went home to China visiting and can't get back in the country now. But I'm sure the southern border is flowing like normal. Bush is one arrogant MoFo.
And the Grand Bargainers tried to claim that ICE could process Z-Visas in twenty-four hours. ICE and DHS are next to useless, based on this sorry story...
I agree - it’s pathetic. See also, the following thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873663/posts
Bingo!
“”I cannot make that commitment to Virginia,” said William F. Reid, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Washington field office.”
Well Bill...YOUR FIRED! Pack yer stuff, there’s the door!
Next...
Enough money to spend years pursuing Libby, et al., but not enough to enforce laws theoretically in effect.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
ping
If there is any kind of internal memo, circular, e mail, or minutes of a meeting, anything AT ALL that instructs Federal Employees not to enforce Federal Law, by any individual in the Executive Branch, that could be grounds for criminal action. If an elected individual, it could be grounds for impeachment.
I’ll check into it.
Thanks. If we see this activity in other such US Federal Government offices around the USA, then there might be a central government directive, advisory or some other kind of action, from above, which comes dangerously close to a being a felony.
This is disgusting....we send more in foreign aid to Mexico!
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
“This is the Bush Administrations payback to the citizenry who opposed his amnesty plan.
The word is out to the heads of all these agencies dealing with border control - screw the public and teach them a lesson not to mess with our schemes.”
You nailed it!!
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