Maybe this got reported somewhere, but I haven’t seen it — my colleague Janice Kephart reports that the agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have issued a vote of no confidence in the agency’s leadership. Especially amusing/alarming is this paragraph:
ICE Detention Reforms have transformed into a detention system aimed at providing resort like living conditions to criminal aliens. Senior ICE leadership excluded ICE officers and field managers (the technical experts on ICE detention) from the development of these reforms, and instead solicited recommendations from special interest groups. The lack of technical expertise and field expertise has resulted in a priority of providing bingo nights, dance lessons and hanging plants to criminals, instead of addressing safe and responsible detention reforms for non-criminal individuals and families. Unlike any other agency in the nation, ICE officers will be prevented from searching detainees housed in ICE facilities allowing weapons, drugs and other contraband into detention centers putting detainees, ICE officers and contract guards at risk.
Dance lessons for criminals and a ban on searching detainees — that sounds about right for the Obama administration.