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DHS Acting Chief Leaks Details of Raids
According to the Washington Examiner, DHS acting chief Kevin McAleenan leaked the details of ICE raids to the Washington Post causing these enforcement actions to be cancelled: Full article at the Washington Examiner
I would hope that Kevin is soon able to enjoy his unemployment, as I also hope that he is quickly heading to prison for leaking information about a pending law enforcement actions.
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Unbelievable. Such disrespect for the President and disregard for the ICE officers. He can’t be gone soon enough.
Maybe, maybe not. I was surprised at the sourcing, but then I don’t think much of anonymous sources no matter which way the story breaks.
To me, the Washington Examiner has lots more credibility than WaPo or the NYT. I would hope they’d know their sources better and with multiple reports, it’s pretty convincing.
Agree to disagree. Again, he may have been a leaker but the article also has the earmarks of a hit job to me. Go on the record or be quiet.
He could deny it but I think he is on his way out. The ICE director Tom Homan has declined the Border “Czar” position unless the DHS guy is gone.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/15/tom-homan-i-havent-accepted-border-czar-post/
The hard left really objects !
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/former-ice-director-thanks-fox-news
Meaning it is certainly true.
Does the article say that?
When actual law enforcement is engaged in a go-situation, what does it take to be charged with obstruction ? (Trying not to sound smart-alecky, cause I’m really keen to know, please.)
I have a CL manual for 2019 and a federal CCM 3rd edition, but nothing on current policy and procedures for ICE. Thanks
et carter
BTW, are NHS still connected to the USCG?
UCMJ might have a remedy assessment quite different than civilian law, yknow?
Our Administrative State bureaucracy has clearly begun to see itself as above the law, and not subject to the power hierarchy as laid out in the Constitution. Never fear, with Alito’s comments on the latest Administrative State court case, it now appears that there is a majority on the Supreme Court that wants to cut severely back on the un-Constitutional grabbing of power by our bureaucrats at last, and if Ginsberg dies and another conservative is appointed that majority may become rock solid.
Probably will get hired by MSNCNNBCBS etc. But I would like to see the book thrown at him for this.
I don’t think the Left will accept her death as a reason to remove her from the court.
https://twitter.com/Anna_Giaritelli/status/1142635210577723392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1142635210577723392&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fgregp-3534%2F2019%2F06%2F23%2Fbig-if-true-trump-officials-say-acting-dhs-sec-kevin-mcaleenan-behind-leak-of-ice-raid-details%2F
So the same as the original story. Name names, madam. I’d thought we’d had enough of “anonymous sources.”
Well, if dead people can vote in Cook County …
A certified member of the deep state, a leftist mole:
No but he has strongly implied it in interviews. So ?
I have seen a good amount of angst by conservatives who do not like Trump that he has “failed” in his promises about the border. I think Ann Coulter is one. My reply is “Do you expect him to personally go into Hispanic neighborhoods and arrest resident who are scofflaw illegals and haul them away? Here is an example of why he has struggled, in spite of Obama judges in Hawaii, etc, to enforce his will on the immigration problem.
If we can’t deport people who’ve already had their asylum claims adjudicated and rejected, we can’t deport anyone.
No biggie. But when a source is cited, is it unreasonable to think the source will support the statement?
Don’t we need to add . . . who was appointed by President Trump to his present position.
Trump is very alone in DC and the bureaucracy has been hostile since day one,. A few career staff, like Mike Rogers at NSA, have done their jobs and been loyal to the Constitution. 96% of DC voters voted for Hillary and I suspect most of northern Virginia and southern Maryland did the same. They are the permanent Administrative State and its minions. He has had a hard time getting loyalty from appointees as they are also part of the Deep State. Even Sessions bailed out on him at the first pushback from the Democrats. He is having to work his way along, learning who is a patriot and who is a weasel.
I’m glad you brought that to public attention.
There exist very aggressively hostile nations who are very aware that the US agencies they usually fear are currently spending all their manpower, money, and investigative tools to implant their heads so far up Trumps gluteus maximus that aforementioned nations have practical invisibility to do what spies do to undermine self-absorbed nations as the US bureaucratic partisans have made it for the President. (apologies for the long sentence. the editor is off duty)
In California, it has to be one tricky situation, as the Attorney General for the State of California has made it semi legal at best and possibly illegal at worst to do anything that hinders the lives of any new arrivals from anywhere.
The Trump administration would have been doing so much better if they had appointed Jeff Sessions as Secretary of Homeland Security instead of Attorney General. The office of Attorney General is one of the four great original cabinet offices, but that was not where Jeff Sessions should have been placed. In many ways Sessions was right to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Besides he didn’t know that Rod Rosenstein and very especially Robert Mueller were going to go completely crazy.
If not Sessions, someone like Kris Kobach should have had the job from Day One.
Rick Santorum was one of the few 2016 presidential candidates that was a bit tough on immigration. Perhaps this compassionate conservative former senator could pass a confirmation. There would be hardly be any secretaries of anything, if the Democrats controlled the Senate.
Just a big waste of time.
When the Democrats or people like pro-amnesty no-wall Paul Ryan can’t beat Trump, they simply delay and delay and delay. The result is the same as if Obama was still in office.
Heck, make John Bolton Secretary of Homeland Security, Defense Secretary, and/or chief of staff. Bolton is smart enough to handle a few jobs.
As I understand it these raids were limited to people who were ignoring deportation orders.
That means: 1) they either entered the country illegally or entered legally and stayed illegally; 2) they had a full hearing, usually after tons of delay, to adjudicate their right to stay; 3) they were unable to demonstrate any legal right to stay and were ordered to leave; and 4) they disregarded the order to leave and stayed anyway.
I like immigrants. I think we probably need more of them. I am not a xenophobe. But come on. If these people can’t be deported no one can. We might as well just shut down the whole immigration operation and hang a sign that says “come on in, everything’s free.” You literally have to oppose all immigration law to oppose deporting the people targeted by these raids – scofflaws who’ve broken our laws multiple times and been afforded full and fair process. What more could they be owed?
The bigotry of you people is appalling. Merely being oxygen intolerant does not make someone less than human you necrophobes!
It can’t be done overnight, but one real fix is disbursement. Lately Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Purdue, has set out to move an entire division of bureaucrats out of D.C. to Kansas City, Missouri. They, of course, are objecting strenuously. I say great. Let them resign. Our Federal bureaucracy needs to be moved out of Washington D.C. and re-positioned throughout flyover country, to better represent to people of this country. Diversity of thought is a foreign concept to the left, but it would certainly be useful in our Federal administrative state.
I’ll use my 20-20 hindsight here and suggest the best thing Jeff Sessions could have done is remain Senator from Alabama.
Unlike, say, last week’s situation with Iraq, where people got irked at Trump because he didn’t release the hounds after the drone was shot down, he really does need to act here to at the very least suspect McAleenan pending an investigation, if not fire him outright. Failure to do so would start bringing up questions about how in the administration was on the ICE actions in the first place, and will give ammunition to Trump’s critics to his right like Coulter that he’s failed to live up to his promises on border security not simply because he’s being blocked by Democrats and GOP business people who want cheap labor.