By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Trying to head off a potentially devastating court defeat, the Obama administration said Monday that ICE agents' lawsuit to overturn the president's non-deportation policy should be thrown out because the agents themselves initially wanted to handle the matter in collective bargaining.
The chief of the union representing immigration agents and officers said Monday that senators listened to illegal immigrants and those who stand to earn millions of dollars from an amnesty, but refused to listen to the government's own law enforcement agents.
The immigration bill senators introduced Wednesday bans racial profiling by federal law enforcement officers in most routine encounters, such as traffic stops.
While lawmakers wrestle over the final details of a comprehensive immigration bill, a new poll shows 6 in 10 GOP voters are opposed to a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants — highlighting the tricky politics of the issue for Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Buried inside the Senate's massive spending bill is a provision eliminating the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Public Advocate — an office President Obama created just last year to hear complaints about how immigrants were being treated.
A law aimed at preventing immigrants from becoming dependent on government assistance is not enforced, said one U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
At the witness table at Wednesday's Senate hearing on immigration reform sat the head of the labor union for immigration enforcement agents. Two seats away, at the same table, sat an illegal immigrant — testifying without fear of deportation thanks to President Obama's new policies.
The head of the union for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sent a letter to President Obama on Tuesday asking to be included in future meetings he has on immigration after the agents were left out of White House talks with business groups and immigrant-rights activists.
The head of the union for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents sent a letter to President Obama on Tuesday asking to be included in future meetings he has on immigration after the agents were left out of White House talks with business groups and immigrant-rights activists.
The former chief of deportations in the Bush administration will testify to Congress on Tuesday that President Obama's new nondeportation policies would have let the Sept. 11 hijackers remain in the country even if they had been picked up in the months before their deadly attacks.
Saying they are fed up with being told that they can't do their jobs, 10 immigration agents on Thursday sued the Obama administration to try to overturn the president's new non-deportation policy.
"We anticipate a run on the border, an increasing number of illegal immigrants coming into the United States, in the years to come," said Chris Crane, president of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, which represents 7,500 ICE agents and officers.
Agents fear immigration deal won’t stop illegal border crossers →
Mr. Crane also said the eight senators working on a deal are missing a big part of the discussion because they have not talked to immigration enforcement officers and prosecutors about what is needed.
Agents fear immigration deal won’t stop illegal border crossers →
