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A veteran Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent is facing 
suspension after he refused to release an illegal immigrant who 
was not considered a priority target under the Obama 
Administration�s new immigration enforcement policies, according 
to documents provided exclusively to Fox News.

�They�re punishing law enforcement officers who are just trying 
to uphold U.S. law,� said Chris Crane, president of the National 
ICE Council. Crane is a union representative acting on the 
unidentified officer�s behalf.

The officer under fire is an 18-year law enforcement and 
military veteran.

On March 27 he and another officer were conducting surveillance 
on a vehicle in Newark, Del. with plates that were registered to 
a criminal alien target.

During the surveillance, they observed an individual get into 
the vehicle. The person was detained, questioned and taken to an 
ICE office so that his fingerprints could be run through a 
federal database.

The individual was not their criminal alien target. However, he 
was a 35-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico who had ten 
previous traffic violations � including driving without a 
license.

�The officer made the determination using prosecutorial 
discretion that he would charge (the suspect) as being in the 
United States illegally and let the judge sort it out,� Crane 
said.

�That�s our place in the universe,� he said. �We�re supposed to 
make arrests and let the judges and the legal system sort 
through the details.�

Instead, two supervising officers, including the acting field 
director, intervened and ordered the officer to release the 
illegal immigrant. The acting field director sat down with the 
illegal and explained that he was going to be let go because he 
was not a �presidential priority,� Crane said.

In essence, the supervising officers took on the role of a 
public defender.

�You had the supervisors intervening with the alien to assist 
the alien and counsel the alien on avoiding receiving a charging 
document,� he said.

The officer�s supervisors ordered the officer to release the 
illegal � an order the officer refused.

According to a �Notice of Proposed Suspension,� dated July 19, 
the officer �failed to follow these supervisory instructions, 
when you arrested a non-targeted alien who did not appear to 
meet any of the ICE priorities.�

A memorandum from Assistant Field Office Director David O�Neill, 
written the morning of the incident, reveals that the officers 
were told to release the subject even though he was in the 
country illegally.

The officer �became agitated and began to raise his voice and 
stated that he would not do as instructed,� O�Neill wrote in his 
memo.

As a result of disobeying the order to release a known criminal, 
the officer faces a three-day suspension and could ultimately 
lose his job and pension if he arrests another illegal not on 
the Obama administration�s priority list.

�They�re willing to take away their retirement, their job, their 
ability to support their families in favor of someone who is 
here illegally and violating our laws,� Crane told Fox News. 
�Right now (the Obama administration) is standing in the way of 
us enforcing the law by either taking a disciplinary action, 
threats of disciplinary action, or refusing to sign off on 
charging documents to put an illegal alien into immigration 
proceedings so a judge can sort it out.�

A spokesman for ICE told Fox News they will not discuss �ongoing 
personnel matters.�

�ICE officers are not disciplined for lawful arrests,� the 
spokesperson said. �They may, however, be subject to discipline 
for insubordination and failure to follow agency polices and 
directives, among other reasons.�

Ironically, the illegal alien in this particular incident was 
given better treatment than an American citizen would have been 
in similar circumstances.

A spokesman for the Newark Police Dept. told Fox News that if an 
American had been stopped on the same charges � they would have 
been put in jail. The spokesman said officers would have let the 
judge sort out the details.

Crane said that�s the way it used to be � until President Obama 
loosened restrictions on illegal immigrants.

�Our hands are tied much more than your average police officer,� 
Crane said. �Normally an officer would have made an arrest like 
this, processed him, put the paper work in front of the 
supervisor and they would have signed off on it.�

At the heart of the issue are significant changes announced in 
June by the Dept. of Homeland Security.  The new rules outlined 
how younger illegal immigrants could stay in the country and 
gain work permits through the use of �prosecutorial discretion.�

Crane said agents in the field disputed the idea of 
prosecutorial discretion.

�This whole prosecutorial discretion thing is a big lie,� he 
said. �The administration is trying to say it gives us more 
flexibility to release people. It�s garbage. These are orders � 
very clear orders that you will release people.�

The policy allows for discretion involving individuals who have 
not been convicted of a �felony offense, a significant 
misdemeanor offense, multiple misdemeanor offenses, or otherwise 
poses a threat to national security or public safety; and is not 
above the age of thirty.�

The illegal immigrant in this case had 10 traffic violations and 
is 35-years-old.

And it�s not the first time that ICE agents have found 
themselves frustrated by Obama�s new policy. Last month an 
illegal immigrant injured an officer during an attempted escape 
in El Paso. Assaulting a federal officer is considered a federal 
crime. However, because the suspect was not a priority target, 
he was released without any criminal or immigration charges.

 �We can�t do anything anymore under these new guidelines,� he 
added. �

As a result, he said, an 18-year law enforcement veteran has to 
pay the price � and somewhere in the nation, a 35-year-old 
illegal immigrant is driving on a roadway without a license.

�If a law enforcement officer can�t perform routine enforcement 
functions, what do we have a law enforcement agency for,� Crane 
wondered.

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/exclusive-ice-
agent-faces-suspension-for-arresting-illegal-alien.html

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