[roses of sharon]

ICE Chief Morton to Field: See No Illegal Aliens

http://cis.org/vaughan/see-no-illegal-aliens

[SandRat]

ICE Chief Morton to Field: See No Illegal Aliens

http://cis.org/vaughan/see-no-illegal-aliens

[Marty62]

Check this out. very sad. 3 dui counts and HPD releases the guy that hoped the next flight to Qatar.Sanctuary City Cops claim he was part owner of a Business, didn’t even get his Passport.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/24677710/detail.html

[muawiyah]

So Morton is not interested in the sort of ilegal aliens who dash about pulling in DUIs and murdering nuns ~ and that's a local event right in his neck of the woods.

I wouldn't be surprised to find that this guy is an axe murder and someday we'll find his wife, kids and several other relatives chopped to pieces in his basement.

Man just can't be of sound mind and come up with this one.

[tbpiper]

ICE chief John Morton intends to prohibit not only his officers, but also local officers with 287(g)immigration authority, from busting illegal aliens who are discovered as a result of traffic violations

Malfeasance n. intentionally doing something either legally or morally wrong which one had no right to do. It always involves dishonesty, illegality, or knowingly exceeding authority for improper reasons.

[snowrip]

One step closer to the brink.

[philman_36]

Can this, if approved, be considered the federalization of local police forces?
If one action can be dictated from DC can't all?

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[Liz]

“According to a draft policy document now being circulated among a limited group of stakeholders, ICE chief John Morton intends to prohibit not only his officers, but also local officers with 287(g)immigration authority, from busting illegal aliens who are discovered as a result of traffic violations.”

So that means we’ll go back to where illegals can drive illegally with impunity, like the Ft. Dix plotters, who were stopped 75 times by local police for traffic violations and never turned over to immigration.

[tet68]

It’s all part of Obama’s “Don’t ask, don’t deport”
policy.

[DBeers]

hmmmm...

It looks like we see a slow and deliberate fundamental transformation taking place right before our eyes by this administration as it subverts the law and its task of enforcement by reinterpreting its mission and changing policies to fit its own goals. Plainly put, this administration seeks to keep a certain demographic of illegal aliens, useful idiots beholden to them, in the country as long as possible.

Case in point: ICE: Detention and Policy Reforms

Detention Reform

Last year, ICE detained more than 300,000 aliens. Recognizing that the purpose of immigration detention is not punitive and the importance of providing our detainees with quality care, ICE is engaged in a broad detention reform effort. This includes creating a civil detention system that reduces transfers, maximizes access to counsel, visitation, and recreation, improves conditions of confinement, and ensures quality medical, mental health, and dental care. ICE already has taken concrete steps to improve the immigration detention system and is engaged in a serious and sustained effort that will result in additional reforms and actions in the near future.

Review the Accomplishments

Policy Reform

ICE has a broad mandate that includes protecting and securing the borders through immigration enforcement at the border, ports of entry, and inside the United States. Finite resources require ICE to prioritize our enforcement efforts to best protect the security of our communities and the integrity of the immigration system. This includes focusing on criminal aliens, fugitives, and recent border violators. To ensure our practice aligns with these broad priorities, ICE has recently issued a number of policies including one intended to reduce the risk that we place United States citizens in proceedings or detention, a policy to refocus fugitive operations, and a new memorandum of agreement in an effort to ensure the 287(g) program aligns with ICE priorities. These and other key reforms promote the smart and effective enforcement of immigration laws. Additional policy reforms are coming soon.

Summary of Policy Reforms

Request for Public Comment on Immigration Detainer Policy

ICE has drafted an immigration detainer policy to engage all interested stakeholders and solicit a broad range of views and comments. This is not a final policy and is disseminated solely to collect feedback. ICE is interested in a concrete assessment of how this draft policy, if issued and implemented, would affect the agency's law enforcement partners, the operation of the criminal justice system, communities and individuals. Please respond with your comments to ICEDetainerComments@dhs.gov by Thursday, September 30, 2010.

ICE Draft Immigration Detainer Policy (PDF Document)

One obvious question is -where is the media reporting on this?

Another obvious question: Is it not counter intuitive and hypocritical to pursue a policy that on the one hand purports, "the purpose of immigration detention is not punitive"; YET, on the other hand as evidenced, ICE is more and more focusing on ONLY detaining convicted criminals -this concept further promoted in the latest "Draft Immigration Detainer Policy" which will so much as command local law enforcement agencies to release all illegal aliens discovered during traffic stops UNLESS they are convicted of felonies or demonstrate an immediate danger.

What is the purpose of immigration detention that is supposedly not punitive yet is solely premised upon a criminal conviction and NOT simply upon illegal status?

Does 2 + 2 = 5 now? Again -where is the media on this?