January 4, 2011, - 1:16 pm
DHS VIDEO: Obama Says Good-Bye, Immigration & Customs Enforcement; Hello . . . “HSI?”
Toward the end of last year, I posted a memo from James Dinkins, who heads what was formerly known as the Office of Investigations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He is in charge of all the ICE Agents engaged in investigations. The memo eliminated the title of Senior Special Agent, and many long-time agents are upset at losing their hard-earned title. As I also noted, the memo bears Dinkins’ new title, “Executive Associate Director, Homeland Security Investigations.” As many ICE agents warned, the agency will apparently soon drop the name, “Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” and transition to a new name, “Homeland Security Investigations” (HSI) further signaling the abandonment of immigration enforcement by the agency. Our friend, Bonzer Wolf, has more info on this.
Now, check out this cheesy new recruitment and public relations video, which recently popped up on the ICE website, and many not-too-happy ICE agents noticed:
Say Good-Bye to Immigration & Customs Enforcement . . . & the Enforcement of Immigration & Customs Laws
You’ll note that the two silly-looking, “Men In Black”-sunglasses bespectacled ICE, er . . . HSI agents are a woman with ’80s-style frizzy hair and a Black dude. That’s a major part of HSI’s new mission: affirmative action in recruiting women and minorities. White guys need not apply. The ICE people do everything for a reason, and there’s a reason that there’s no White guy stupidly marching around in sunglasses. I know a lot of ICE agents, and I’ve rarely seen one walking around in sunglasses. It’s like a bad MTV video from the ’80s. Very bad. Like “Night Ranger” or “Loverboy” bad . . . completely with semi-naked chick on a bed with her butt/crotch sticking out (who looks nothing like the sex slaves ICE investigates).
But beyond that, the video makes clear that Janet Napolitano has created for herself a new national police organization with no clear mission and definitely no clear limits. Much of what ICE already does–and what this new HSI will focus on–is duplicative of efforts already performed by other law enforcement agencies, including stopping child porn and thuggish gangs. Unless the gangs have foreign origins, like MS-13, local police can handle it. But this is the plan: HSI has no “customs” or “immigration” in the title and it can minimize its efforts in enforcing the laws in those areas and concentrate on other, more “sexy” areas. Lucky us. The video makes clear that HSI’s new position is not that there are “illegal aliens” or “illegal immigrants,” but, rather, the more politically correct “illegal movement of people and goods.” Huh?
The part where it says, “investigating: worksite immigration violations,” is kind of funny (and sad) when you consider that Janet Napolitano ENDED all worksite raids by ICE agents and started investigating the agents who actually did their job. As you’ll recall, agents were so demoralized by this that even Seattle ICE Special Agent in Charge Leigh Winchell took to e-mail to vent his frustration to and support for his agents, a story I broke on this site. Ah, I get it. They’re still “investigating” it, but won’t do much about it.
My favorite part of the video is, “HSI . . . we spend American tax money giving ugly gold earrings and sarcophagi to America-hating Egyptian Muslims.” I also love the part of the video in which Ms. Frizzy tries to seize someone’s t-shirt from the Superbowl or something. You know my views on that. And the “counterfeit” batteries? Since when is a battery with the name “Delancey” fake? A low-rent knock-off maybe, but not technically a counterfeit of anything. ICE legitimately investigates and seizes some fake goods, and often those goods are financing Hezbollah or HAMAS or the Chi-Coms. The same for some smuggled weapons for Islamic terrorists and the like. And for that I am thankful and appreciative. But, long ago, John Ashcroft signed away to the FBI control of all terrorism-related investigations. And since, pursuant to that and the glamor that comes with those cases, the FBI usually pounces on them, ICE often shies away.
The agency’s main focus was once immigration and customs laws and the enforcement thereof. Apparently that’s all going away now in favor of some undefined, amorphous personal, national police force for Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama. When the video announces, “Homeland Security Investigations–the Investigative Arm of DHS,” what it really means is “the personal police force of J-No.”
And that’s scary–as scary for the agents who work there (and are already so demoralized) as it is for you and me.
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Gentlemen, please enough! The bottom line is that both Immigration and Customs services would be better off if ICE were divided back to their original configurations; the only problem, seemingly is “would the immigration clown GS-13′s and clown GS-14 supervisors relinquish their rank?” We all know they do not deserve it, but would they be eligible for unionization again? Would new immigration agents come from Examinations or Adjudications and not be required to attend FLETC Basic Agent School? But then again who cares? Let Immigration be Immigration. and bring back Customs Office of Investigations. My experience with the legacy immigration agents is that, yes, they would be at the office at 7 am, albeit drinking coffee and reading the paper, and would go home at 3:00 pm, Customs agents working on criminal cases could never get them to come out overnight (their union rules I presume). ICE seems to think that hiring Border Patrol and IEA’s, to be criminal investigators is a good policy. They fail to realize that these clowns are lost in an urban environment, you can’t apply administrative, border “cutting sign” tactics to modern, urban, complex sophisticated criminal investigations, that’s part of the reason why ICE is the laughing stock of federal agencies right now. There was an IEA in Chicago that all she did was whine about why she should be a special agent, and she resented the fact that “Customs management” took over Immigration. Well, she did finally get picked up as an agent, and the first thing she did was go out on a six monthe maternity leave; when she came back all she did was sit at her desk and knit, or make phone calls, sounds like good management material. Don’t get me wrong, Customs had their share of clowns, but now coupled with the majority of Immigration clowns, the agency is a joke. And, by the way, anyone who thinks that tattoes, piercings, long hair, makes you a good street/undercover agent, well you are definitely wrong, and by the way, why would you be advertising that on this blog, it just demonstrates that you don’t know what you are talking about, and probably have some mental notion that being “u/c” is just like they show it on t.v. Fact is, unless you’re doing small time street buys, which at the federal level is a waste of time, the cartel guys (managers at the dope dealer level, the ones crminal investigators should be after) don’t even dress like that, they are clean cut, nicely dressed, and some are even educated, ie., they are at the level that any criminal investigator would be anxious to take down. So, Immigration, I hope you continue doing such a great job processing your illegal aliens: 1990 estimated 5 million illegals; 2010 estimated 15 million illegals. Great job immigration clowns.
QTD on January 10, 2011 at 4:47 pm