Frankenquester unraveling: DHS official 'retires' over release of illegals

[Wehrwolfen]

By Rick Moran
February 28, 2013

It didn't a lot of brains to call out the administration for releasing illegal aliens from prison and then blame budget cuts that hadn't even occurred yet. The author of this edition of Obama scaremongering over the sequester - DHS's Gary Mead, executive associate director over enforcement and removal operations at ICE, "retired" immediately after the story broke.

Associated Press:

The senior Homeland Security Department official in charge of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants announced his retirement the same day the agency said that hundreds of people facing deportation had been released from immigration jails due to looming budget cuts, according to a letter obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. The government said he had told his bosses weeks ago that he planned to retire.

Gary Mead, executive associate director over enforcement and removal operations at Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, disclosed his departure in an email to his staff Tuesday afternoon. The announcement of the release of the illegal immigrants had come earlier in the day.

President Barack Obama's spokesman, Jay Carney, said Wednesday that the decision to release the immigrants was made without any input from the White House. He described the immigrants as "low-risk, non-criminal detainees."

The announcement that a few hundred illegal immigrants were being released was among the most significant and direct implications described so far by the Obama administration about the pending, automatic budget cuts that will take effect later this week under what is known as sequestration.

Republicans in Congress quickly criticized the decision and pressed the Homeland Security Department for details.

In an email to his staff obtained by the AP, Mead said he was leaving the agency at the end of April "with mixed emotions." He did not say what prompted his departure. Mead did not immediately respond to an email and a telephone call.​

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[Wehrwolfen]

By Rick Moran
February 28, 2013

Maybe the administration is just too anxious to inflict pain in the American people. First the release of illegal immigrant criminals, before the cuts have even happened. This follows on the heels of Education Secretary Duncan's statement on Face the Nation where he tried to scare parents by saying that "There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can't come back this fall..."

But when challenged yesterday by the press, Duncan backtracked:

When he was pressed in a White House briefing Wednesday to come up with an example, Duncan named a single county in West Virginia and acknowledged, "whether it's all sequester-related, I don't know."

And, as it turns out, it isn't.

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[CrusaderFrank]

In a related statement, Gary Mead said, "I also gave the go ahead for Holder's Fast & Furious and would like to have taken responsibility for getting the Benghazi Consulate massacred, but, what difference would it make?"

 

[Wehrwolfen]

The White House and the Department of Homeland Security were unaware of Immigration Customs and Enforcement’s decision to release detainees until the agency announced it, administration officials said Wednesday.

“This was a decision made by a career officials at ICE without any input from the White House, as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing resolution, as well as possible sequestration,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday.

Personnel at Department of Homeland Security headquarters in Washington were also unaware of the decision until the announcement was made, a department official told POLITICO.

ICE announced Tuesday that it has released several hundred undocumented immigrants in recent weeks as funding cuts loom. The detainees will instead be monitored in less expensive ways, the agency said.

Carney described those released as “low-risk, non-criminal detainees,” but several Republican members of Congress have spoken out against the releases.

“It’s very hard for me to believe that they can’t find cuts elsewhere in their agency,” House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told CBS News on Tuesday. “I frankly think this is outrageous…I can’t believe that they can’t find the kind of savings they need out of that department short of letting criminals go free.”


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It's another screw-up and cover-up that backfired and could bring down the administration but the mainstream media doesn't want to go near it.

 

[Wehrwolfen]

It's another screw-up and cover-up that backfired and could bring down the administration but the mainstream media doesn't want to go near it.

You say could. I would prefer that it does bring this administration down. We have seen from the start that this adminsiration has not been honest, transparent, or for those that elected him. The biggest lie this president has ever stated is the oath he has taken twice to serve and protect the Constitution and the people that elected him.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

By Rick Moran
February 28, 2013

It didn't a lot of brains to call out the administration for releasing ...
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English as a second language?

Maybe not dangerous... IDK
Criminals for sure

Criminals get released all the time. It's politics