"They shouldn’t have let him in. Bells should have gone off.”

Proof of innocent intent in disposing of Tsarnaev’s “materials”? Just think: This guy was months away from being amnestized by Schumer/McCain/Rubio, and now he’s gone and thrown it all away. Expect Lindsey Graham to be on TV within the hour arguing simultaneously that (1) no one should use this new revelation to politicize the new [...]

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Hmmm.

Nothing more than a tweet from the Boston Police Department;s official account, but that’s spreading like wildfire on Twitter — for understandable reasons: Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case. Details to follow. — Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) May 1, 2013 Boston Police say three additional suspects taken into custody in Boston [...]

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Hmmm.

So says the Daily Mail, based on an interview with an unnamed Saudi “senior government official” with direct knowledge of the letter sent to the US.  According to the official, Tamerlan Tsarnaev applied in December 2011 to enter Saudi Arabia to visit Mecca, but the Saudis got suspicious of his actual intent and denied the [...]

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Scapegoat.

You’ve got to be kidding. The Associated Press has learned that the Homeland Security Department official in charge of the agency’s immigration enforcement and removal operations has resigned after hundreds of illegal immigrants were released from jails because of government spending cuts. In an email obtained Wednesday by the AP, Gary Mead told coworkers that [...]

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Whodunit?

Last month, the Associated Press broke the story of a deliberate delay in arresting a sex offender who illegally overstayed his visa and neglected to update his offender registry — and who happened to be a volunteer in Senator Robert Menendez’s (D-NJ) office in New Jersey.  Why did ICE delay in arresting and starting deportation [...]

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Catch and release

You may or may not recall the story of Jose Antonio Vargas, the “undocumented worker” who became a reporter talking about immigration issues. As part of his “journey” to reach the American Dream, he obtained a drivers license in Washington State, allowing him to move about more freely and eventually obtain employment. Well, it seems [...]

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Prosecutorial discretion.

Ten federal immigration agents are filing a lawsuit against the Obama administration, arguing that the Department of Homeland Security’s more-lenient revisions of their deportation policy earlier this year are putting them between a rock and a hard place by preventing them from doing their jobs as-required by law. The Wash Times reports: The 10 U.S. [...]

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ICE breakers?

It started with a lawsuit by an angry ICE director who claimed that Janet Napolitano’s personal relationship with Dora Shriro was the basis of a promotion to “special advisor’ that came at his expense, and who then began to be isolated by Napolitano in retaliation for his complaints.  Now two more ICE employees have come [...]

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Heartache for the families involved.

BuzzFeed asks whether Kesler Dufrene might not become Barack Obama’s Willie Horton. Nothing about Dufrene’s story reflects well on U.S. officials: When burglar Kesler Dufrene became a twice-convicted felon in 2006, a Bradenton judge shipped him to prison for five years. And because of his convictions, an immigration judge ordered Dufrene deported to his native Haiti. [...]

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