ICE Endangers America
ICE is sending terrorists a clear message – its open season on America. ICE’s raids focus on gardeners and busboys, letting terrorists off the hook. While ICE loves to parade press releases jeering at the destruction of the families of US Citizen children, we are yet to see ICE announce arrests of those conspiring to terrorism on US soil. A recent NY Times report said “Federal immigration officials had repeatedly told Congress that among more than half a million immigrants with outstanding deportation orders, they would concentrate on rounding up the most threatening — criminals and terrorism suspects. Instead, newly available documents show, the agency changed the rules, and the program increasingly went after easier targets. A vast majority of those arrested had no criminal record, and many had no deportation orders against them, either.” All this while there are clear dangers on American soil that ICE is turning a blind eye to. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune recently quoted FBI director Mueller saying “Shirwa Ahmed, the first known suicide bomber with U.S. citizenship, apparently was indoctrinated in Minnesota.” US taxpayers’ hard earned money is given to ICE to protect our homeland, not to chase dishwashers and carpenters. We believe the exact same thing is happening with the 287(g) program – local law enforcement, especially in communities in the South with long histories of racism, uses every excuse (like broken tail lights) to harrass those with the wrong skin color – all under the guise of “protecting America”. Law enforcement resources which should be used in the fight against Al Qaeda are instead being used to promote racist ends. Other DHS components are not much better. CBP roving teams in the Olympic peninsula in Washington state and in Syracuse, NY have succeeded in making the lives of many documented and undocumented Americans miserable, without advancing one whit the security of these United States. Worse, there could well be a terrorist loose in Washington state and upstate New York preparing for the next 9/11 who is the beneficiary of these misguided efforts at CBP (not to be outdone, TSA does not accept the matricula consular as identification). It is time that these dangerous antics at DHS, and especially ICE, were put to an end. We urge Secretary Napolitano to heed President Obama's reminder that we are a welcoming nation, and stop the shennanigans in her department.
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