One of the big changes that the country has witnessed since the Obama Administration took over the government was to switch the immigration enforcement focus from the undocumented aliens to the employers hiring undocumented aliens. Obviously, underlying this policy was the efforts of the Obama government to appease its strongest constituency, the Hispanic community, pending the enactment of CIR.
Under the policy, the law enforcement against the undocumented aliens has been substantially reduced, while the law enforcement against the U.S. employers has gradually intensified. This created some tension in the immigration enforcement community.
Under the leaked policy, detention and treatment of detained undocumented aliens would receive some leniency. Report indicates that such swift of policy at the top level of the Obama administration has ignited discontent and resistance within the ICE, which culminated in no confidence vote by the ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officers union against the head of the agency.
As it poises for further immigration initiatives, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is struggling with festering internal divisions between political appointees and career officials over how to enforce laws and handle detainees facing deportation.
Under the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security has shifted its focus away from the worksite raids and sweeps employed during George W. Bush's presidency to deporting more criminals and creating less prison like detention settings. But ICE, a branch of DHS, is facing intensified resistance from agency middle managers and attorneys, and the union that represents immigration officers.
The internal conflict has grown increasingly public over ICE's plans, among them to expand a risk assessment tool to guide agents on detention decisions, cut down on transfers of detained immigrants, and open more "civil" detention facilities -- what field directors call "soft" detention.
Immigration officers say the new measures limit their enforcement efforts and the revamped lockups will compromise their safety. In June, their union took the unprecedented step of issuing a vote of no confidence in the agency's director, John Morton, and the official overseeing detention reform, Phyllis Coven.
Months before that, the 24 field managers who oversee detention and deportation sent a memorandum to Morton that challenged a number of recommended changes. Current and former ICE attorneys in New York, Houston and other offices nationwide say they are angry that they have been instructed to drop efforts to deport some immigrants. http://www.greencardapply.com/news/news10/news10_0912.htm
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