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Immigration boss who barred feds from terror suspect up for award, but agency won't say why
FoxNews ^ | 6/22/16 | Malia Zimmerman

Posted on 06/22/2016 4:15:12 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

A U.S. immigration official blamed in a federal report for barring law enforcement agents from a suspect in the San Bernardino terror attack has been nominated for a prestigious agency award – but her bosses in Washington refuse to say what she did to earn consideration.

Irene Martin heads the San Bernardino U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office, where last December, she allegedly blocked five armed Department of Homeland Security agents from the man authorities say supplied the firepower in the deadly attack a day earlier. Although an Inspector General's report found she acted improperly, and then lied to investigators, FoxNews.com has learned she has been nominated for the Secretary’s Award for Valor.

“To give Irene Martin an award for valor is insulting to all the prior awardees – the agents and officers who truly displayed valor and risked their lives to save someone else,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington-based research institute.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; ig; ins; irenemartin; obstruction; perjury; politicalcorrectness; sanbernardino
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To: UCANSEE2; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I can’t think of one major Obama female appointee who is competent.


21 posted on 06/22/2016 5:59:59 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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To: Strac6

I love good editing!!!


22 posted on 06/22/2016 6:29:58 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Rosa Parks incarnate. Man it just don’t get any better mmm mmm mmm.


23 posted on 06/22/2016 6:56:32 PM PDT by Recompennation
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

Thank you, Sir!

Be well.


24 posted on 06/22/2016 9:22:38 PM PDT by Strac6 (The primaries are only the semi-finals. ALL THAT MATTERS IS DEFEATING HILLARY IN NOVEMBER.)
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They are daring us to water that tree.


25 posted on 06/23/2016 5:31:20 AM PDT by Maverick68
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