Immigration Watch International (2): DHS’s New Immigration Detention Watchdog Opposes Immigration Detention

Monday, May 20, 2024

DHS’s New Immigration Detention Watchdog Opposes Immigration Detention

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DHS recently announced the appointment of Michelle Brané as the immigration detention ombudsman, heading an office dedicated to becoming “an objective, credible resource for those impacted by immigration detention”. In case you were wondering, that means the detainees, not the American people.

Immigration detention is necessary because, as the Supreme Court has noted, Congress “had before it evidence that one of the major causes of the ... failure to remove deportable criminal aliens was the ... failure to detain those aliens during their deportation proceedings”, and as the House Committee on Homeland Security concluded earlier this year, “continuously detained aliens have historically almost always been repatriated, while nondetained aliens have rarely been”, and “a lack of consequences, such as detention, incentivizes illegal immigration”.

Brané is reported to be an anti-ICE activist “who has called ICE’s activities ‘abusive’ and wants to limit the agency’s powers of detention”, and asserts that removing illegal aliens before they commit crimes sounds like “a police state”.

It is no wonder that the Center for Immigration Studies’ Jon Feere says her appointment is akin to “putting an arsonist in charge of conducting oversight of the U.S. Forest Service” and worries that “she’ll use her new authority to undermine ICE detention efforts, which will come in the form of excessive audits and releases of illegal aliens based on unsupported and phony complaints”.

In 2012, the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration subcommittee held a hearing on the Obama administration’s new “DHS Immigration Detention Standards”. The hearing was titled “Holiday on ICE” because, as Committee Chairman Lamar Smith explained, “ICE has decided to upgrade accommodations for detained illegal and criminal immigrants. While we would all like to be upgraded, we do not have the luxury of billing American taxpayers or making Federal law enforcement agencies our concierge.” Smith concluded that “The Obama Administration should put the interests of American taxpayers ahead of illegal and criminal immigrants.”

Brané testified at the hearing that DHS needs to “commit[] to creating a civil system of [immigration] detention that is used as a last resort ... implementing effective tools for detaining only where appropriate and necessary”, failing to acknowledge or care that in many instances, such civil detention is mandated by federal statute. Such disregard of congressional detention mandates was in large measure the basis for the first article of impeachment against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

https://cis.org/Fishman/DHSs-New-Immigration-Detention-Watchdog-Opposes-Immigration-Detention

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Postings from Brisbane, Australia by John Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.) -- former member of the Australia-Soviet Friendship Society, former anarcho-capitalist and former member of the British Conservative party.

Why is "La Raza" the one Spanish term that is NEVER translated in the American mass media? Because translating it would make it a lot less respectable. It means "THE RACE" -- The mixed Hispanic "race" of Mexico. Racism is fine South of the Rio Grande only, apparently.

The "line" of this blog is that immigration should be SELECTIVE. That means that:

1). A national government should be in control of it. The U.S. and U.K. governments are not but the Australian government has shown that the government of a prosperous Western country can be. Up until its loss of office in 2007, the conservative Howard government had all but eliminated illegal immigration. The present Leftist government has however restarted the flow of illegals by repealing many of the Howard government regulations.

2). Selectivity should be based on "the content of a man's character, not on the color of his skin", as MLK said. To expand that a little: Immigrants should only be accepted if they as individuals seem likely to make a positive net contribution to the country. Many "refugees" would fail that test: Muslims and Africans particularly. Educational level should usually be a pretty fair proxy for the individual's likely value to the receiving country. There will, of course, be exceptions but it is nonetheless unlikely that a person who has not successfully completed High School will make a net positive contribution to a modern Western society.

3). Immigrants should be neither barred NOR ACCEPTED solely because they are of some particular ethnic origin. Blacks are vastly more likely to be criminal than are whites or Chinese, for instance, but some whites and some Chinese are criminal. It is the criminality that should matter, not the race.

4). The above ideas are not particularly blue-sky. They roughly describe the policies of the country where I live -- Australia. I am critical of Australian policy only insofar as the "refugee" category for admission is concerned. All governments have tended to admit as refugees many undesirables. It seems to me that more should be required of them before refugees are admitted -- for instance a higher level of education or a business background.

5). Perhaps the most amusing assertion in the immigration debate is that high-income countries like the USA and Britain NEED illegal immigrants to do low-paid menial work. "Who will pick our crops?" (etc.) is the cry. How odd it is then that Australians get all the normal services of a modern economy WITHOUT illegal immigrants! Yes: Before the pandemic, you usually COULD buy a lettuce in Australia for a dollar or thereabouts. And Australia IS a major exporter of primary products.

6). I am a libertarian conservative so I reject the "open door" policy favoured by many libertarians and many Leftists. Both those groups tend to have a love of simplistic generalizations that fail to deal with the complexity of the real world. It seems to me that if a person has the right to say whom he/she will have living with him/her in his/her own house, so a nation has the right to admit to living among them only those individuals whom they choose.

I can be reached on jonjayray@hotmail.com -- or leave a comment on any post. Abusive comments will be deleted.

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