Obama’s Immigration Policy: Don’t Deport Any of them

by Jeff Davis

Remember the old television ads about the Maytag repairman who had nothing to do? That’s what America’s immigration enforcement agents must feel like these days, except that there is work for them, but they’re not allowed to do it.


Fox News Radio reports: “Morale among Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is at an all-time low more than a month after the Obama administration announced major changes to the nation’s immigration enforcement policy, according to the head of a national agency representing thousands of agents. ‘Morale is in the toilet right now,’ said Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council. ‘Most of the guys out in the field are just in an uproar.’”

Understandable, since the president of the United States has just ordered them to sit on their hands and stop doing their job, and let the brown tide of future Democrat voters simply flood in.
Fox News Radio continues: “President Obama’s policy allows the federal government to use ‘prosecutorial discretion’ to allow younger illegal immigrants to stay in the country and get work permits. Critics called it backdoor amnesty, but the administration said it stops short of granting illegals citizenship.”

That would be a little hard even for Obama to do simply with a stroke of his pen with one of those Executive Orders, that somehow bypasses the Constitutional process of making or changing the law, but nobody seems to care or object except folks like us.

The article notes “’They call it discretion but it’s not our discretion,’ Crane told Fox News. ‘We have no discretion.’”

“Crane said a case involving a veteran ICE agent is a perfect illustration. The agent arrested an illegal who was not a ‘primary target.’ The agent’s superior officers ordered the illegal released – even though he did not meet the criteria listed by the Dept. of Homeland Security. The officer refused to follow orders and is now facing a three day suspension. The 35-year-old illegal immigrant with ten traffic violations was released.”

Ten traffic violations! How many of those were DUIs? Apparently Obama doesn’t care if US citizens get killed by reckless or drunk illegal alien drivers!
Fox News Radio goes on: “He pointed to another case in El Paso where an illegal immigrant injured an ICE agent during an attempted escape. Again, Crane said, because the individual was not a priority target, he was released without any charges being filed.”

Including no assault charges on a law officer? I suppose that might possibly lower their morale.

The only reason we have immigration agents at all is to maintain a facade that we’re trying to control the border. We’ve had a series of presidents, who sold us out, including George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. It remains to be seen if the Tea Party can arm-twist Romney into restoring any semblance of immigration enforcement assuming we can defeat Obama before he does any more damage.