Posted on 08/12/2014 10:59:07 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Obama administration broke the law when it released thousands of illegal immigrants, more than 600 of whom had criminal records, last February as a result of poor planning and micromanagement from Washington, according to an internal audit released Tuesday that says things have not improved in the 18 months since.
Compounding matters, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gave bad information to Congress, initially blaming the looming budget sequester, rather than the agency's own budget pressures, the Homeland Security inspector general concluded.
In the new report the IG does clear top Homeland Security officials of accusations they pressured ICE to do the releases in order to create more pain from the sequesters. Instead, investigators said the problems lay at the senior levels of ICE, itself, finding that top officials botched planning, didn't inform their own superiors of the problems, and didn't even know the law required them to hold 34,000 immigrants a day until they were reminded of it by congressional staffers.
"In this single action, ICE undermined its own credibility, the rule of law, and the safety of Americans and local law enforcement," said Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican who requested the report along with Sen. John McCain. "This report provides more evidence that our nation's immigration laws are being flagrantly disregarded. Americans need to be assured the problems within ICE that led to the dangerous release of illegal aliens will be fixed and DHS and ICE will never again violate the law by releasing known criminals into our streets."
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Well holder??????
I would expect it from Coburn but not McLame and his desires of amnesty.
“Our Constitutional government was structured in such a way that one branch has the power to reign in any of the other branches that goes rogue.”
The legislative branch could reign him in, unfortunately it takes both the House AND Senate to do that.
The House alone can do nothing but tilt at windmills.
Cue Hitlery with coke bottle glasses on.......
LOL! Good one. :-)
Law? What’s that? Is there any, like, consequence for violating this law thing you speak of?
"Do I really need to say it?"
The biggest threats to this contry come from within.
LOL
George Bush, according to mac daddy he is the one who is responsible for everything that goes wrong in the mac daddy sock puppet corrupt administration.
This administration has broken many laws, and gotten away with it.
The DemocRATS needed somebody to kill the Americans that they don’t want to kill.
Yes,,,,he’s done what he said he was going to do.
I have come to the conclusion that the person most responsible for the destruction of the US is - the face looking back at us from the mirror.
Why? Favorable ratings for Congress are lower than a snake’s belly; yet we continue to reelect the same criminals and perverts year after year. We had chances in KY, MS and SC to change the course we’re on. But no, we just had to keep McConnell, Cochran and Graham. The irony is that the three could - and should - be defeated by the opposing party.
Thanks to Cochran and McConnell backstabbing Conservatives, Harry Reid will still be Senate Majority Leader in January.
I'll believe it when these bureaucratic turds get fired and sent to jail. Otherwise it is just more bullsh!te to shut us up.
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