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…
New York Times Editorial In a series of raids in suburban New York in 2006 and 2007, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement burst into private homes in the dead of night, without warrants, looking for undocumented immigrants, often in the wrong houses. They pounded on doors, terrorized innocent residents, ineptly drew guns on police…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com More than 20 New Yorkers will receive a combined $1 million in a settlement with ICE over warrantless raids on their homes, WNYC reports. Under the settlement, ICE also must change some of its policies and training involving searches. “Sleeping while Latino is not a suspicious activity that justifies ICE’s forcing its…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ICE agents along the Arizona border became aware that ATF was allowing illegal guns to cross the border as part of the bungled Fast & Furious investigation, the Washington Guardian reports. But ICE agents, who were concerned and talked to local ATF officials about the unusual probe, never took the complaints to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has determined that an ICE agent did nothing wrong when he gunned down a fellow agent who had fired shots at a supervisor in February 2012, the L.A. Times reports. Ezequiel Garcia fired six shots at Kevin Kozak, the Los Angeles field office’s second in command, during a meeting about…
