Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com President Obama’s pick for the No. 2 job at the Department of Homeland Security advanced to the next stage after getting approval from a Senate panel, the Los Angeles Times reports. Now Alejandro Mayorkas, head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, needs confirmation from a majority of the Senate. Republicans have objected…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An ICE officer who operates a website that warns of an impending race war has been fired, the Associated Press reports. Ayo Kimathi, who wrote about an “unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race,” had been on paid administrative leave for four months. As an acquisitions officer, Kimathi, who is black, handled…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Homeland Security employee who is an outspoken black nationalist who preached about the “unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race” is still on the payroll, The Blaze reports. Ayo Kimathi was called out in August by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups. “(I)n order for Black people to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican national said he was raped by cellmates in a Montana jail while he was waiting to be deported, the Great Falls Tribune reports. “I want people to know what happened to me, and I want the people responsible to be punished,” Audemio Orozco-Ramirez, 40, told the Tribune through an interpreter….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — In an effort to prevent terrorists from crossing the Canadian Border into the U.S., Border Patrol agents are gearing up for a new $17 million facility in Detroit, WWJ reports. Agents gathered for a groundbreaking this week. “We share intelligence, anything that’s got a nexus to the border and through…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Homeland Security employee who was exposed for hosting a racist website that advocates for a race war was placed on paid administrative leave while the agency investigates, the Huffington Post reports on Monday. Ayo Kimathi, acquisitions officer for ICE, forecasts on his site, War on the Horizon, forecasted an “unavoidable, inevitable…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Feds and local police launched a search Wednesday night for a missing ICE agent who didn’t turn up for work in southern California, The Los Angeles Times reports. But authorities expressed some optimism late Wednesday that no foul play was involved. ICE released a statement shortly before 11 p.m., saying they believed…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ICE Director John Morton, who oversaw a spike in immigrant deportations, announced he’s leaving the agency, UPI reports. Morton, who was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in May 2009, said he plans to leave the agency at the end of July. “I am extremely proud of what we have accomplished together during…
