She got the memo and is obviously coming around. [Brietbart] Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) trashed the agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as "human rights" violators just days after she voted to continue funding the agency.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the self-described socialist congresswoman accused ICE agents of international human rights violations:
The one thing the president has not talked about is the fact he has systematically engaged in the violation of human rights on our border. He has separated children from their families. He talked about what happened the day after Christmas, on the day of Christmas, a child died in ICE custody. The president should not be asking for more money to an agency that has systematically violated human rights. [Emphasis added]
The president should be really defending why we are funding such an agency when right now what we are seeing is death. Right now what we are seeing is the violation of human rights. These children and families are being held in basically freezing boxes that no person should be maintained in for any amount of time let alone the amount of time they are being kept. [Emphasis added]
Less than a week ago, though, Ocasio-Cortez voted in support of a Continuing Resolution for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to keep funding ICE and U.S. Border Patrol at current levels.
The vote was a break from Ocasio-Cortez’s infamous campaign to "abolish ICE," whereby House and Senate Democrats plotted to end all immigration enforcement last year.
Polls conducted following Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign to abolish ICE revealed that a majority of Democrats, 60 percent, oppose abolishing the federal agency. About 70 percent of all American voters and 73 percent of swing voters said they oppose Ocasio-Cortez’s abolish ICE plan.
If Ocasio-Cortez had her way and ICE had been abolished five years ago, back in 2013, there would have been at least 1.64 million illegal aliens ‐ many of whom are convicted criminals ‐ released into U.S. neighborhoods and communities rather than being deported, as Breitbart News reported.
It appears that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is preparing to pack it in, for now.
The two-term sheriff, the object of fierce criticism over BSO’s handling of the Parkland massacre, told his top commanders that he will be removed from office by Gov. Ron DeSantis, sources told the Miami Herald.
DeSantis, who was sworn in Tuesday morning, had not made a formal announcement of a possible suspension. Israel’s discussions with staff about his ouster were first reported by Miami New Times.
Stuart N. Kaplan, one of Israel’s lawyers, said Israel was working at his office at the public safety building in Fort Lauderdale.
"The governor has not said anything to us, directly or indirectly, as to whether or not the sheriff is going to be suspended,’’ Kaplan said. "He is working and continues to serve the citizens of Broward County.’’
But Jeff Bell, BSO’s union chief, said Israel told his staff on Monday that his ouster was inevitable.
"We know that he is telling everyone at the public safety building that he is going to be gone,’’ said Bell, who was at DeSantis’ swearing-in ceremony in Tallahassee on Tuesday.
Several candidates have been mentioned as possible replacements, including former Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti, a Republican like DeSantis. But Bell would not indicate whether the union was backing anyone.
"What I will say is we want someone who will remove politics out of police work and commit to protecting the citizens and our children in the schools,’’ Bell said.
There were unconfirmed reports that Israel’s undersheriff, Steve Kinsey, had resigned. The sheriff’s communications office did not respond to requests for comment.
Israel, 62 ‐ a 30-year law enforcement veteran ‐ has vowed to fight any effort to strip him of his office. He maintains that while mistakes were made in responding to the rampage, they were not serious enough to warrant his suspension or removal from office.
Israel has long defended his agency’s actions on Feb. 14, 2018, when 17 people ‐ 14 of them students ‐ were slain by a gunman in what is considered the worst mass high school shooting in U.S. history.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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