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Do you ever feel like the shallowest people in America are the ones running the show? Now we have proof. Just ask Julie Myers. I have no idea how good or bad a job Julie Myers has done in two years as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security. But her actual performance appears to be a non-issue in the U.S. Senate, where she needs confirmation to stay in the job she received via a 2005 recess appointment by President Bush.

Remarks by Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, and Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras at a Press Conference on Operation Wagon Train Secretary Chertoff: Good morning, everybody. I'm joined here by Julie Myers, the Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement; by Deborah Platt Majoras, the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission; and by George Gaines, the County Attorney for Cache County, Utah. One thing that I've spoken about and many others in the administration have talked about over the last year is the need to take a comprehensive approach...

Manassas Journal Messenger Editorial, January 24, 2006 Myers appointment makes us wonder It is abundantly clear that Washington is not listening to pleas for immigration enforcement from communities like ours. In fact, it looks as if the Bush administration doesn’t care at all. During the recent holiday recess of Congress, President Bush used a tool implemented by other presidents to slip some appointments past the congressional approval radar. Among them was the naming of Julie L. Myers as Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE in the Washington vernacular. If the residents...

Debbie Schlussel: BREAKING: As PREDICTED by SCHLUSSEL, Unqualified Julie Myers Gets Bush Recess Appt. to Head ICE By Debbie Schlussel DAMN! You heard it here, first. Back in November, we broke the news that Julie L. Myers--President Bush's unqualified nominee to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)--would get a recess appointment. Unfortunately, yet another of our dark predictions has come true (like our Al-Arian-would-walk prediction). Today, the White House announced that President Bush gave Ms. Myers the ultimate undeserved Christmas present over the holidays. Bush gave Julie Myers a recess appointment as Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, overseeing ICE. Happy...

THE OTHER TROUBLING NOMINATION By Michelle Malkin   ·   October 05, 2005 01:27 PM Before the quag-Miers, (hat tip: Confederate Yankee for the term) there was the other quag-Myers. That is: Julie Myers, a Bush lawyer with virtually no immigration and customs enforcement experience and minimal managerial experience who has been nominated to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. She just happens to be niece of recently retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers/wife of DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff's chief of staff/former employee of Chertoff and outgoing ICE head Michael Garcia. Here's the latest Capitol Hill...

President Bush's nominee to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drawn the ire of several ICE supervisors and agents who say she is "unqualified" because she has never held a law-enforcement management position. The nomination of Julie L. Myers "just doesn't pass the smell test and is another indication that this administration created the Department of Homeland Security as window dressing and does not care whether ICE is successful," said Matthew Issman, national legislative vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA). "What we need is a strong, law-enforcement leader, not another inexperienced, well-connected lawyer with friends...

ulie Myers is 36 years old, a lawyer and a political appointee to the Bush administration with limited executive experience. Yet, she is slated to become head of one of the nation's most critical security-related agencies, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Myers appointment, in the wake of FEMA's disastrous handling of the Katrina Hurricane and the resignation of its chief, Michael Brown, has people from both sides of the political aisle raising hackles. "The Bush administration has barely rebounded from the resignation of horse show organizer Michael ‘Heck...

Julie Myers is 36 years old, a lawyer and a political appointee to the Bush administration with limited executive experience. Yet, she is slated to become head of one of the nation's most critical security-related agencies, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Myers appointment, in the wake of FEMA's disastrous handling of the Katrina Hurricane and the resignation of its chief, Michael Brown, has people from both sides of the political aisle raising hackles. "The Bush administration has barely rebounded from the resignation of horse show organizer Michael ‘Heck...

WASHINGTON Sep 20, 2005 — A Democratic senator threatened Tuesday to block approval of a Homeland Security Department nominee until he receives a secret FBI memo about terror suspect interrogations that he's been seeking for months. The threat against Julie L. Myers, tapped to head the department's bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, came amid lawmakers' concerns that she lacked the experience to head the federal government's second-largest investigative force. Asked if he planned to use legislative delaying tactics against Myers nomination, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said: "Oh yeah. If we don't get the documents, sure." Podcast: The AfterNote Sen....