The I.C.E. memos the government didn't want you to see: A secretive review, according to Fox News, Wednesday, has resulted in the dismissal of thousands of immigration cases. Top attorneys at I.C.E. headquarters in D.C. have approved these dismissals while I.C.E. continues to publicly deny accusations of back door amnesty. Immigration reports show the number of dismissed cases grew by approximately 40% last year and memos and emails verify the directives were on target for the administration's stealth amnesty goals, accuses an I.C.E union head.
For months, these policies continued and Rebstock, I.C.E. agent and president of the Houston I.C.E Union, points out that only after the Houston Chronicle broke the story was there a directive to cease the immigration dismissals, "When the media broke the story, they immediately contacted him and said, 'Stop'." Rebstock wasn't buying the Fed's explanation, that it was a tiny mistake in a huge operation.
It's "back door or stealth amnesty," accused Rebstock, "This administration couldn't get the amnesty through congress, they couldn't get it past the voters, so instead they are trying to do it by policy." Affirming that he believes the policy directives are politically motivated, Rebstock added, "There have been a number of instances where this administration has solicited the input of various immigrant rights groups' in order to form policy so that they can woo that voter base.
Explaining that these kinds of actions jeopardizes the authority of I.C.E. agents and their ability to do their job, Rebstock said, "We're told regularly what we can't do in spite of what the statute gives us authority to do. "
Rebstock provided an example of how his agents might enter a house with 30 people in it, searching for a single target with a criminal record, only that one single target may be arrested - and the agents are not allowed to even talk to the other 29 who may have outstanding warrants in deportation or other criminal records. Rebstock alleges that these kind of directives are oral, never written down.
He cited memos "that clearly state The Office of Professional Legal Advisers in headquarters 'blessed the actions' of our chief counsel here in Houston. And there are email communications in that same information from the chief counsel, I believe, in Dallas admitting that he was behind the curve, on doing the exact same thing, and applauding Houston and Miami on their efforts."
When Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano, was asked to explain how this could have happened, during a Senate hearing, reading from notes, she downplayed the immigration case dismissals:
The director has responsibility for immigration across the entire country, many field offices across the land, all dealing with different circumstances, all the time. And his job, and I've asked him to do this, is to make sure that there are clear priorities, that there are set and enforced. Unfortunately one of the 26 field offices conflated two different memos that had come out and misconstrued what he directed. That has since been clarified, cleared up and fixed. I'd be happy to provide your office with a side briefing on that; but, the plain fact of the matter is that a miscommunication occurred at the regional level in one of 26 offices.
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