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   A veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing   
   suspension after he refused to release an illegal immigrant who   
   was not considered a priority target under the Obama   
   Administration’s new immigration enforcement policies, according   
   to documents provided exclusively to Fox News.   
      
   “They’re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying   
   to uphold U.S. law,” said Chris Crane, president of the National   
   ICE Council. Crane is a union representative acting on the   
   unidentified officer’s behalf.   
      
   The officer under fire is an 18-year law enforcement and   
   military veteran.   
      
   On March 27 he and another officer were conducting surveillance   
   on a vehicle in Newark, Del. with plates that were registered to   
   a criminal alien target.   
      
   During the surveillance, they observed an individual get into   
   the vehicle. The person was detained, questioned and taken to an   
   ICE office so that his fingerprints could be run through a   
   federal database.   
      
   The individual was not their criminal alien target. However, he   
   was a 35-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico who had ten   
   previous traffic violations – including driving without a   
   license.   
      
   “The officer made the determination using prosecutorial   
   discretion that he would charge (the suspect) as being in the   
   United States illegally and let the judge sort it out,” Crane   
   said.   
      
   “That’s our place in the universe,” he said. “We’re supposed to   
   make arrests and let the judges and the legal system sort   
   through the details.”   
      
   Instead, two supervising officers, including the acting field   
   director, intervened and ordered the officer to release the   
   illegal immigrant. The acting field director sat down with the   
   illegal and explained that he was going to be let go because he   
   was not a “presidential priority,” Crane said.   
      
   In essence, the supervising officers took on the role of a   
   public defender.   
      
   “You had the supervisors intervening with the alien to assist   
   the alien and counsel the alien on avoiding receiving a charging   
   document,” he said.   
      
   The officer’s supervisors ordered the officer to release the   
   illegal – an order the officer refused.   
      
   According to a “Notice of Proposed Suspension,” dated July 19,   
   the officer “failed to follow these supervisory instructions,   
   when you arrested a non-targeted alien who did not appear to   
   meet any of the ICE priorities.”   
      
   A memorandum from Assistant Field Office Director David O’Neill,   
   written the morning of the incident, reveals that the officers   
   were told to release the subject even though he was in the   
   country illegally.   
      
   The officer “became agitated and began to raise his voice and   
   stated that he would not do as instructed,” O’Neill wrote in his   
   memo.   
      
   As a result of disobeying the order to release a known criminal,   
   the officer faces a three-day suspension and could ultimately   
   lose his job and pension if he arrests another illegal not on   
   the Obama administration’s priority list.   
      
   “They’re willing to take away their retirement, their job, their   
   ability to support their families in favor of someone who is   
   here illegally and violating our laws,” Crane told Fox News.   
   “Right now (the Obama administration) is standing in the way of   
   us enforcing the law by either taking a disciplinary action,   
   threats of disciplinary action, or refusing to sign off on   
   charging documents to put an illegal alien into immigration   
   proceedings so a judge can sort it out.”   
      
   A spokesman for ICE told Fox News they will not discuss “ongoing   
   personnel matters.”   
      
   “ICE officers are not disciplined for lawful arrests,” the   
   spokesperson said. “They may, however, be subject to discipline   
   for insubordination and failure to follow agency polices and   
   directives, among other reasons.”   
      
   Ironically, the illegal alien in this particular incident was   
   given better treatment than an American citizen would have been   
   in similar circumstances.   
      
   A spokesman for the Newark Police Dept. told Fox News that if an   
   American had been stopped on the same charges – they would have   
   been put in jail. The spokesman said officers would have let the   
   judge sort out the details.   
      
   Crane said that’s the way it used to be – until President Obama   
   loosened restrictions on illegal immigrants.   
      
   “Our hands are tied much more than your average police officer,”   
   Crane said. “Normally an officer would have made an arrest like   
   this, processed him, put the paper work in front of the   
   supervisor and they would have signed off on it.”   
      
   At the heart of the issue are significant changes announced in   
   June by the Dept. of Homeland Security.  The new rules outlined   
   how younger illegal immigrants could stay in the country and   
   gain work permits through the use of “prosecutorial discretion.”   
      
   Crane said agents in the field disputed the idea of   
   prosecutorial discretion.   
      
   “This whole prosecutorial discretion thing is a big lie,” he   
   said. “The administration is trying to say it gives us more   
   flexibility to release people. It’s garbage. These are orders –   
   very clear orders that you will release people.”   
      
   The policy allows for discretion involving individuals who have   
   not been convicted of a “felony offense, a significant   
   misdemeanor offense, multiple misdemeanor offenses, or otherwise   
   poses a threat to national security or public safety; and is not   
   above the age of thirty.”   
      
   The illegal immigrant in this case had 10 traffic violations and   
   is 35-years-old.   
      
   And it’s not the first time that ICE agents have found   
   themselves frustrated by Obama’s new policy. Last month an   
   illegal immigrant injured an officer during an attempted escape   
   in El Paso. Assaulting a federal officer is considered a federal   
   crime. However, because the suspect was not a priority target,   
   he was released without any criminal or immigration charges.   
      
    “We can’t do anything anymore under these new guidelines,” he   
   added. “   
      
   As a result, he said, an 18-year law enforcement veteran has to   
   pay the price — and somewhere in the nation, a 35-year-old   
   illegal immigrant is driving on a roadway without a license.   
      
   “If a law enforcement officer can’t perform routine enforcement   
   functions, what do we have a law enforcement agency for,” Crane   
   wondered.   
      
   http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/exclusive-ice-   
   agent-faces-suspension-for-arresting-illegal-alien.html   
      
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