That department isn't working too well lately.
Posted on 01/20/2018 6:50:01 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Immigrants entering the United States illegally through the southern border are quietly being relocated to different parts of the country on commercial flights, high-ranking Homeland Security officials told Judicial Watch this week. In the last few days alone, groups of illegal aliens boarded planes at airports in Texas and Arizona accompanied by a taxpayer-funded government escort in civilian clothes to avoid drawing attention. The first flight originated at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas and was bound for Minneapolis. The second left from Tucson International Airport and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, federal sources said. In both locations the illegal aliens appeared to be in their late teens and were escorted by a Health and Human Services (HHS) chaperone. Judicial Watch reached out to HHS for comment but did not hear back from the agency.
The illegal aliens wear red HHS wrist bands and receive "the gold glove treatment," according to a veteran federal official, who added that the undocumented immigrants get priority boarding ahead of all other passengers, including law enforcement personnel. "It is shameful and dangerous," said a seasoned Homeland Security agent with direct knowledge of the secret operations. Labor personnel from front-line Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies have complained about the cost and security risk of flying illegal alien minors to any destination of their choosing within the U.S., according to a longtime Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official present at the meetings. One of the closed-door meetings, late last year, included President Donald Trump and his chief of staff, John Kelly.
It appears that the Trump administration has chosen to ignore the concerns of rank-and-file federal agents, instead opting to quietly extend the controversial Obama-era policy that relocates illegal immigrants to unsuspecting communities nationwide. It is known as "Catch and Release" and frustrated DHS sources tell Judicial Watch the Trump administration is essentially facilitating the ongoing commission of a federal immigration crime despite its tough border security rhetoric. In a recent newspaper article Border Patrol agents in Texas say they’ve been ordered to release illegal immigrants caught entering through Mexico because there is no bed space at detention facilities. This has provoked a surge in illegal crossings, Border Patrol officials say, because there is no punishment to deter the lawbreakers.
In the same news story, the head of the ICE officers' union (Chris Crane) and the National Border Patrol Council (Brandon Judd) said detrimental old policies remain in place because Obama managers are still running their agencies. Crane, a veteran ICE agent, refers to the Obama holdovers as "incompetent, corrupt and anti-enforcement." Judd said word is getting back to Mexico and Central America that illegal border crossers will be released if caught, resulting in a huge increase in crossings. In a period of a few months, border crossings skyrocketed from 11,100 in a single month to 26,000, according to figures provided in the news story. Immigrants from Asia are also entering the U.S. through Mexico, federal officials say. In San Diego, California agents apprehended dozens of illegal aliens from Asian countries in the last few months, including more than 60 from India.
There was tremendous hope that Trump would finally put an end—as promised—to the dangerous Obama policies that released scores of illegal immigrants into different parts of the country. Judicial Watch has reported on it extensively and in 2016 exposed a covert DHS program that transported illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and released them without proper processing. The government classified them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and transferred them 116 miles north from Tucson to a Phoenix bus station where they went their separate way. The OTMs were from Honduras, Colombia, El Salvador and Guatemala and a security company contracted by the U.S. government drove the OTMs from the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector where they were in custody to Phoenix. Outraged Border Patrol agents and supervisors on the front lines said the illegal aliens were released in droves because there was no room to keep them in detention. "They're telling us to put them on a bus and let them go," one Arizona law enforcement official told Judicial Watch at the time. "Just move those bodies across the country." A year into the Trump administration, it seems that little has changed.
He can’t change it by himself. Only congress can supply the funding needed for detention space. This issue has been out there for 30 years and never gets fixed because congress does not want it fixed.
Trump can make all the personnel changes we want and it will not make a difference.
The issue here is detention space FUNDING, DHS can't spend money that congress has not appropriated and as we are seeing now, congress has little appetite for enforcement funding.
“Minneapolis: an ancient Chippewa word meaning “refuse heap” or “dumping ground.”
Chicago...stinking onions.
The issue here is detention space FUNDING, DHS can’t spend money that congress has not appropriated and as we are seeing now, congress has little appetite for enforcement funding.
I don’t want these illegals DETAINED....I want them DEPORTED!
These commercial flights are going THE WRONG DIRECTION!!
I am sick and tired of paying for their housing...of ANY kind, and their healthcare, groceries, education and 0bamaphones....they have freaking smart phones nicer than some of my hard working relatives have...and new designer clothes, freshly done acrylic nails, etc., etc.
I WANT THEM SENT BACK....not detained....not flown all of the country on my dime.
That department isn't working too well lately.
I’m sick of the ‘holdovers’ blame, too.
Time to send these folks packing....and, what better time than during the #SchumerShutdown
I’m sick of OUR tax dollars going towards funding housing/feeding/educating future DEM voters.
The Dem’s DACA Dream is this country’s worst NIGHTMARE.
Do something, POTUS, Congress.
And so are dangerous “refugees” and “asylum seekers.” I read a post about them being sent to various places in Alabama, Iowa, etc.
- The President has established that we can trust him (isn't he taking action on each and every promise he made?).
- If we know what is going on re: the busing, don't you think he knows?
- If he knows and he isn't stopping it, don't you think there is a reason for that? For example, this operation is being directed by the deep state. To eliminate the problem, he has to go to the root of the problem (i.e. he has to ID the command and control of this operation. He has to finger the personnel all the way to the top.).
- The way to identify the entire command structure is to infiltrate and find out who is giving the orders. That means the operation has to continue until the orders can be traced to the one(s) who is/are giving them.
bump
Democrats are setting up future elections... placing their illegal shills for maximum damage.
Because bigger fish are being breaded for frying...
Americans should just declare open season. I’ll come lend some skills when required.
Trump? Why is not Sessions doing something, yo? =.=
They musta vowed not to make that mistake again.
Going to red districts!
DACA + flooding the country with illegals = permanent control and the end of the US
Sessions is still on vacation ... he cannot be reached for comment until his term expires.
Look, he needs to know WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION.
Sure he does, but all messages are delayed until he returns ... he’s a flake. Stop wishing on a dead star, or quit beating the horse, he’s dead. He’s beyond caring, he’s dead; rigamortis has set in and the body is blotted, flies are buzzing and worms are turning, the stench is overwhelming.
Well, you are right on. It IS a dumping ground. 😀👍
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