November 14, 2008, - 3:59 pm
The ICE Princess’ Last Stand; New Head of Immigration Enforcement Under Investigation; Ray Kelly Lobbying for DHS Top Job
By Debbie Schlussel
**** SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE on Ray Kelly ****
Today, a myriad of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents contacted me from all over to let me know that their unqualified, incompetent Bush crony-ette boss, Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess”, stopped by ICE headquarters to say good-bye to the little people.
After months away from the office–an unearned paid vacation courtesy of your tax dollars–she decided to make an official stop in. And, surprise, it wasn’t to judge a costume contest and give out awards for “originality” to employees dressed in blackface . . . or to illegally destroy evidence when she got caught.
Also, today, while she was saying good-bye, I was observing one of the many sad legacies she’s left in her destructive path of incompetence, ineptitude, and selfishness.
Here are some of the many fun and appropriate ICE images I’ve asked David Lunde to make over the last three years . . .
Julie Myers Was Unqualified, Clueless, and an Embarrassment to ICE Agents . . .
Prima Donna Julie Myers Liked to Be Chauffeured Around by ICE Agents, Who Were Forced to Buy Her Diet Coke (Out of Their Money) . . .
And She Liked to Give Awards to Her Employees Dressed in Blackface . . .
As I walked down the aisles of a Detroit-area kosher supermarket and saw signs all over saying there is no pastrami or buffalo meat, I thought: this is really the main legacy of “The ICE Princess”–the head of our nation’s immigration enforcement for the last three years, and the woman who exacerbated the problem.
The reason there is a shortage in kosher beef across the country is that instead of tracking down illegal alien visa violators–which include many Muslim “tourists” and “students” who came here for neither purpose and are still here–Myers wasted over $10,000,000 and thousands of ICE agent man-hours to round up just 300 mostly Guatemalan illegal aliens at the nation’s primary kosher meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa.
I’m all for arresting illegal alien workers, but we must set priorities. And the priorities she set dictated that several hundred Somalian Muslim extremist workers with work visas got the illegal alien Guatemalans’ jobs. Don’t you feel so much safer now that “Black Hawk Down” was imported to Iowa? Wow, that was really worth the $10,000,000 national photo op Julie Myers bought with your taxes.
Also, the plant and its parent company just filed for bankruptcy. It is taking the whole Postville town out of commission economically–in a time we can least afford it. The whole town will collapse.
But, hey, the hundreds of thousands of Muslim tourist and student visa violators continue to roam free. I guess they are “less dangerous” than Guatemalan Catholic meat packers.
And, of course, as I noted right after the raid, I asked an ICE agent who conducted the raid whether they’d ever raid Muslim halal meat-processing plants (many of which have been linked to terrorist money laundering), and he say, “F-ck no! The White House has to sign off on this.”
Instead, Julie Myers spent her days feting “former” Islamic terrorists who commit marriage and immigration fraud and work to impede her agents from enforcing the law–an amazingly obtuse move about which I wrote in the New York Post. Yes, American has its priorities.
And the priorities under Julie L. Myers, Michael Chertoff, and George W. Bush were not immigration enforcement. Estimates say that under Myers and her two top protectors–Bush and Chertoff–hundreds of thousands to a million new illegal aliens either entered the country illegally or stayed here past the time they were legally allowed to be here.
That’s the rest of her Politically Correct and incredible bankrupt legacy. Under Myers, ICE became LICE–Latino Immigration and Customs Enforcement, because that’s the only ethnicity that seems to be the target of immigration enforcement in these post-9/11 years.
Finally, there’s her hand-picked temporary successor, whom she promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of ICE, even though she knew he was and remains under investigation for promoting unqualified women to important ICE positions because they slept with him.
My sources say that John P. Torres, the proud high school graduate running ICE now that Myers is gone, is under serious investigation for that misconduct and for misusing and misspending ICE money on flights to fly his extramarital girlfriend around. Because of him, she is now Assistant Special Agent in Charge in Baltimore. And don’t forget the hundreds of thousands of dollars he wasted on a weeklong ICE confab promoting . . . himself and paying $30,000-$50,000 to Tommy Lasorda to speak to ICE agents.
Nice work if you can get it.
And, apparently, at ICE, you can only get the plum jobs and get promoted if you are dishonest and incompetent.
Meanwhile, illegal aliens laugh at us, just as they laughed at Myers’ brilliant plan to ask illegal aliens to self-deport. Only 9 out of hundreds of thousands took a bite.
Buh-bye, ICE Princess. And good riddance. So glad you are no longer on ICE and that your federal career is on ice.
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Here are a couple representative examples of the many e-mails I’ve received from ICE agents, very glad to see Myers go, but very much captive of low morale amidst the “leadership” of John P. Torres, ICE’s own unique version of a power-mad George Costanza:
Subject: JULIE MEYERS is saying GOOD-BYE Today!
Dear Debbie,
Julie Meyers will be dropping by the new ICE HQ on 500 12th Street SW, Washington, DC to say Good-Bye today!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The exclamation marks are the message–excitement that Ms. Thang is finally gone.
Subject: Meyers finally Gone!!
Debbie,
Tomorrow (read today) is Julie Meyers last day……. Now we have the wonderful (sic) Torres running ICE………. Jeez, all we need to complete this bad nightmare is for Ray Kelly to come back to be DHS……… We are in serious kak kak………..
Note that both of these ICE agents spelled The ICE Princess’ surname wrong, because they simply don’t care about or respect her in the least to get it right. In fact, many ICE agents referred to her as The ICE Princess, after she was so dubbed by this site.
Yes, Ray Kelly, who heads the NYPD and was once head of U.S. Customs, is pushing to become Obama’s new chief of Homeland Security. I’ve written about him before. ICE agents who worked for the former U.S. Customs noted his priority as head of Customs was not law enforcement, but affirmative action for minorities in hiring and promotions. He is a close friend of Hillary Clinton, so that may put him out of the running. He’s not a good guy, but he’s far better than Michael Chertoff, in that he at least was a cop and a high-level federal cop.
Sadly, as I’ve noted in the past, Kelly was tight with his former protege, Islamo-panderer Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz”, the sleazy, swinging ICE Special Agent in Charge for Michigan and Ohio, who was seeking extramarital relationships with employees of organizations engaged in immigration fraud, organizations that were under investigation by his agent, and suddenly aren’t now.
And that’s the latest in the ongoing comedy that is not a sitcom, but, sadly, real life for America: ICEfeld.
**** 11/15/08, UPDATE on Ray Kelly, possible new Homeland Security Chief:
One commenter, who claims his name is Tony Attansio and who says he worked in the NYPD and as a federal agent for Ray Kelly, is upset by my comments on Kelly. I have had mixed reactions about Kelly among ICE agents when I wrote about him when Hillary Clinton was the front-runner in the Presidential race.
Certainly, he’d be a vast improvement over Michael Chertoff, but why should Chertoff be the bar? If that’s the case, the bar is set very low. Here’s what I wrote about Ray Kelly, then. I think it’s a pretty even-handed assessment, since Kelly has, indeed, done a decent job of infiltrating and stopping Muslim terrorists, to the great jealousy and disdain of the FBI, which has been incompetent in the same area. At the same time, this began under Bernard Kerik, and Kelly has been very much into “outreach” to Islamic extremists:
Then, there is Hillary Cankles Clinton–for whom I would NEVER EVER vote. She is very good friends with New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who would likely be among Hillary’s top choices to head up DHS. Legacy-Customs agents in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have mixed reviews of Kelly’s performance when he ran the then-U.S. Customs Service, a job he got because of his tight friendship with Hillary Clinton.
One former Special Agent in Charge, whom I trust a great deal, told me Kelly’s chief priority was not law enforcement and stopping money laundering and smuggling of goods into America. He said Kelly’s chief priority and objective in Customs was the affirmative action hiring and promotion of minorities, many of whom were not competent because they were not hired or promoted based on qualifications and experience. The former Customs Agent tells me that Kelly was terrible and helped destroy Customs.
And Kelly is friends with dangerous Islamo-pandering ICE officials like Brian Moskowitz a/k/a “Abu Moskowitz,” the ICE Special Agent in Charge over Michigan and Ohio. Abu Moskowitz, a former New York City cop, brown-nosed Kelly. And Kelly, in turn, repeatedly promoted and groomed Abu M (selecting him for the prestigious Customs Leadership Institute), getting him to the position where he is today. Under a Kelly DHS, Moskowitz–who panders to known Islamic terrorists and agents of the Government of Iran and refuses to investigate their illicit activity–might be as protected and unduly promoted as Julie L. Myers a/k/a “The ICE Princess” was and is. NOT a good thing.
On the other hand, as head of New York’s police, Kelly has been doing a great job getting and stopping Islamic terrorists. The NYPD has done such a great job stopping Islamic terrorists in New York, the FBI is angry and jealous. (That includes NYPD counter-terrorism personnel embedded in Israel, to which the FBI strenuously objects.) Most big terrorism suspects thwarted in New York recently have been stopped by NYPD undercover operatives and informants, not those from the FBI. While Kelly has achieved a lot in the fight against terrorism in NYC, he’s hugged and kissed a lot of extremist Muslims in photo ops, in the process. Not a good thing.
I asked at that time for agents to respond and comment on Kelly:
I’d love to hear more from ICE agents who’ve worked for Kelly. Please post your comments in this entry and/or e-mail me, and let me know what you think of him.
Read the responses. And please comment now on your reaction to Ray Kelly atop DHS.
It’s partly crap like having someone like this working for the federal government that cost the Republicans the presidential election this year. The Republicans need to start running a much tighter ship.
Ron Taylor on November 15, 2008 at 12:31 am