From my NumbersUSA newsletter
SIGN PETITION AGAINST ADMINISTRATION’S CONTINUING NULLIFICATION OF IMMIGRATION LAWS.
Here is what the union asks the public: Sign this petition to John Morton telling him that he should be encouraging ICE agents to enforce the laws duly enacted by Congress. Law enforcement officers should NEVER be punished for upholding the law.
click http://petitions.iceunion.org/petitions
Federal immigration law enforcement agents are boldly challenging their bosses in the Administration. Today, they have put up a petition on their website that protests what they consider to be threats of punishment if they don’t follow orders to violate immigration laws passed by Congress.
The union’s website invites the public to sign the petition and stand behind these courageous immigration agents. Sign their petition. Then ask all your friends to sign it.
The petition is addressed to ICE Director John Morton.
He is the author of the infamous Morton Memo of a year ago that provided the framework for the Department of Homeland Security’s actions beginning today in accepting applications for the mini-DREAM amnesty.
The Morton Memo broadened the concept of prosecutorial discretion to the point that huge classes of illegal aliens could be exempted by the Administration from having to obey immigration laws.
But ICE agents are finding that the Administration’s new rules actually don’t give them much discretion at all.
The Administration’s supposed prosecutorial discretion is in fact the absolute loss of discretion by ICE agents to do anything except ignore the law.
The ICE union website states:
Reports are now emerging of ICE agents using their prosecutorial discretion, but then being punished if they determine an illegal alien should be put in deportation proceedings.
A veteran ICE agent recently arrested an illegal alien who had 10 traffic violations. The ICE agent determined, in his discretion, the alien did not fit within the outline of the Morton memo or the Executive DREAM Order and initiated deportation proceedings.
The agent’s supervisors overruled him and ordered him to release the illegal alien.
As a result of attempting to do his job, the agent in question is now facing a three-day suspension. If suspended now, this military veteran and eighteen year federal law enforcement officer will be fired and lose all retirement benefits earned if he attempts to exercise prosecutorial discretion again in the future.
Not surprisingly, a union would recognize the threat to all American workers if ICE agents don’t have the discretion to actually enforce immigration laws.
I was thrilled to see that the union for ICE agents has taken the lead today in pushing back.
Won’t you please do everything you can to spread the word about this petition through email, on websites and through Talk Radio?
Here is what the union asks the public: Sign this petition to John Morton telling him that he should be encouraging ICE agents to enforce the laws duly enacted by Congress. Law enforcement officers should NEVER be punished for upholding the law.
click http://petitions.iceunion.org/petitions
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