The Two Union Leaders Driving Trump's Rabid Immigration Enforcement Crackdown

[annabanana]

ICE is a rogue agency

http://www.alternet.org/union-leaders-driving-trumps-lawless-immigration-crackdown?akid=15244.71875.Gc1Y4T&rd=1&src=newsletter1072998&t=4

As the detention of law-abiding undocumented U.S. residents spreads across the country and throughout the nation’s airports, no small part of the blame (or credit) belongs to two union leaders who have backed Trump to the hilt. They are Chris Crane, the president of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council, a union that represents some 5,800 ICE officers nationwide, and Brandon Judd, head of the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) Council, which represents 16,000 CBP agents.

Both men were early Trump supporters who associate with nativist groups founded by a white supremacist.

In his February 2016 endorsement of Donald Trump, Crane falsely charged that President Obama’s executive order on immigration required ICE officers to ignore "cartel members, gang members, weapons traffickers, murder suspects, drug dealers, suspects of violent assault."

In fact, the Obama order required ICE to prioritize felony criminals and not target law-abiding undocumented residents.

(more at link)

[msongs]

1. LEO unions only care about more power and money and job security. morality is irrelevant nt

[annabanana]

3. I don't now what a "LEO" union is

from further down in the article:

Judd, who endorsed Trump in March 2016, served on the Trump transition team, which filled two top positions at the Department of Homeland Security with leaders of nativist organizations—the Federation for American Immigration Reform and the Center for Immigration Studies, according to the New Yorker. Both groups oppose legal and illegal immigration to the United States. The Southern Poverty Law Center has classified FAIR and CIS as hate groups because of the racist and neo-Nazi views of their founder, John Tanton.

[atreides1]

5. LEO

Law Enforcement Officer!

Commonly called the Police Union!

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Wow,finally out in print.

Heard this via the Grape Vine from someone at DHS.

[annabanana]

4. I know.

My dear departed Mr Banana worked for Customs, (and then DHS) for over 40 years. Determinedly apolitical, he would roll his eyes at the mention of ICE . . .

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Heard that story first hand

last week.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Similar to back in the day when 3 strikes laws were all the rage...

the Prison guards union was on board with that fiasco.

Some unions are not friendly to Dems or to progressive causes.

[atreides1]

7. ICE

Is nothing more then a new Gestapo, in its infancy!!!

With John Kelly, as the new Reichsführer-SS, nominated by Trump and confirmed by a majority of the US Senate! And why did Kelly receive so much support, because he was a Marine General, big fucking deal!

Now we're stuck with a bad imitation of Himmler, who will follow every order that Trump gives him!!!

During his confirmation hearing, Kelly lied, a lot!

"He said that he doesn’t support the idea of registering people based on their religion or ethnicity and also said he doesn’t think religion should be used as the foundation for law enforcement or counterrorism operations."

And yet the CBP officers keep asking people about their religion!

By the way, Kelly was the Commander of US Southern Command, which included GITMO...so he's already on board with detaining people without due process!!!