Ragsdale’s assertion, which was backed by no legal rationale whatever, was momentous. Reportedly, staff in both the operations and legal divisions of ICE had put forth a different legal opinion, consistent with ICE’s long-established position that it expected other law enforcement agencies to honor and comply with its detainers, which Ragsdale overrode in formulating his letter. Their objections to his response were founded not just on institutional needs and policy, but also on federal regulation: 8 CFR 287.7(d), which says:
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420960/how-obama-administration-undermined-detainers-rich-lowry
Sounds like Ragsdale was the author of sanctuary cities. Go home to mommy.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3519503/posts?page=45#45
And then there is Daniel Ragsdale, currently Deputy Acting Director of ICE and number two at the agency after John Morton. Agents tell me he heads up the ICE gay mafia. He’s another lawyer with zero law enforcement experience. Says one agent:
Ragsdale runs around the front office like a drama queen unsupervised, terrorizing all in his path. 75% of his staff are gay.
Another agent:
He has emasculated special agents by freezing all hiring of investigative support staff in HSI [Homeland Security Investigations], which forces managers to reassign agents to do pencil pushing duties and paperwork when they could be on the street. This is the absolute WORSE thing that could happen.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3519503/posts?page=63#63
The campaign to undermine the use of detainers gained substantial momentum in February 2014, when Dan Ragsdale, then acting head of ICE, advised in response to an inquiry from a group of members of Congress on behalf of confused local law enforcement agencies, that “While immigration detainers are an important part of ICE’s effort to remove criminal aliens who are in federal, state, or local custody, they are not mandatory as a matter of law. As such, ICE relies on the cooperation of its law enforcement partners in this effort to promote public safety.” (Emphasis added.)
Ragsdale’s assertion, which was backed by no legal rationale whatever, was momentous. Reportedly, staff in both the operations and legal divisions of ICE had put forth a different legal opinion, consistent with ICE’s long-established position that it expected other law enforcement agencies to honor and comply with its detainers, which Ragsdale overrode in formulating his letter. Their objections to his response were founded not just on institutional needs and policy, but also on federal regulation: 8 CFR 287.7(d), which says:
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/420960/how-obama-administration-undermined-detainers-rich-lowry
Sounds like Ragsdale was the author of sanctuary cities. Go home to mommy.
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