On Tuesday, House Republicans quizzed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton on why he hadn’t tried to direct sequestration cuts toward areas other than release of illegal immigrant detainees. Morton attempted to blame “career agency officials” rather than political appointees.
In February, 2,228 detainees were released and placed on supervised monitoring in an attempt to frighten the American people about the upcoming ramifications of sequestration. “I am trying to live within the appropriations that Congress gives us,” Morton protested. “Our single largest appropriation is for custody operations …. My view is we need to maintain the operations of the agency; I don’t want to furlough people.” So instead of furloughing administrative employees, Morton simply directed ICE to release illegal immigrants, many of them dangerous.
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That works. Take our guns then let a bunch of dirt bags out of jail. Good job!
Oh, the audacity of the vindictive communist Obama.
only 200?!?!?!?!?
The ignorance of the obamanistas will allow them to believe this is due to sequestration and not the obama admin's infantile idea to redirect blame. Fact is Congress appropriated more money than was even requested by ICE for the sole purpose of these detainments.
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