By Chriss Street
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My report, “Internet Turns
Twenty”, warned that the Internet has reduced many of the
security guarantees associated with geographic borders. Electronic
controls are now used in virtually all infrastructure and security elements for
power plants, electrical grids’ military satellites and financial
transactions. Cyber-warfare and cyber-crime are now accepted as the
optimum battlefield for the 21st Century. The U.S. and Israel’s Stuxnet
virus attack on Iran’s nuclear program had devastating military effects.
Last month Cyberbunker, a Dutch hosting company, waged the world’s
largest denial-of-service attack on Spamhaus, anti-spam organization, affecting
millions and crippling Europe’s Internet backbone. But in no way did I
dispute the value of physical border-security. Protecting Americans
requires border-security and cyber-security to be enforced.
Ten ICE agents, including Christopher L.
Crane as President of the ICE Agents and
Officers Union are seeking
an injunction to overturn Mr. Obama’s Dreamer Executive Order that required the
ICE agents believe is nothing less than a non-deportation policy. As
members of the Homeland Security Department, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement Division members are is the largest sworn law enforcement agency in
the United States. Each member takes a Constitutional oath to enforce the
laws and regarding trade, customs, and immigration. The plaintiff ICE
agents sued because they said the Executive Order made them choose between
enforcing the law and being reprimanded by superiors, or following orders and
violating their own oaths of office.
The agents claimed the “Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant
Responsibility Act of 1996”that states: “immigration
law enforcement is as high a priority as other aspects of federal law
enforcement, and illegal aliens do not have the right to remain in the United
States undetected and unapprehended” significantly
reduces the Executive Branch of government’s discretion in the enforcing
Federal immigration laws.
The ICE agent’s lawsuit challenges Secretary of Homeland Security Janet A.
Napolitano’s Executive Order issued on June 15, 2012 and the June 17, 2012
policy issued by ICE Director John Morton discouraging ICE agents from
enforcing U.S. immigration laws against illegal aliens who would qualify for
the DREAM Act — amnesty legislation that Congress voted down in both October
2007 and December 2010. The memos state that “due to a lack of
resources” agents “must regularly exercise ’prosecutorial
discretion’ if it is to prioritize its efforts” regarding who to
stop, question, detain or remove. Appropriate factors for releasing
illegal aliens when exercising prosecutorial discretion includes alien’s length
of presence in the U.S.; whether the alien came as a young child; alien’s
education pursuit; and“individuals engaging in a protected activity
related to union organizing”.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in a 38-page preliminary opinion has
already ruled in favor of the ICE agents: “The
court finds that [the Department of Homeland Security] does not have discretion
to refuse to initiate removals proceedings” when
the requirements for deportation under a Federal law are met. The Judge
required both parties to file their final arguments on May 6th.
Any organized cyber-attack against America represents serious security
concerns. But Tamerlan Tsarnaev and the other two Boston Bombing suspects
from Kazakhstan escaped immigration enforcement due to the Dreamer Executive
Order.
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