Weeks after the nation’s Homeland Security Secretary blasted immigration officials for arresting illegal aliens who used fake documents to work at a Washington state engine plant she has suspended all similar enforcement operations.
Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano has indefinitely postponed a series of scheduled immigration raids and other enforcement actions, ordering her agency to scrutinize the selection and investigation targets as well as the timing of the planned raids. Among the canceled actions was a plan to raid businesses at a Chicago military facility where as many as 100 illegal immigrants work.Napolitano was furious when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents busted dozens of illegal aliens last month at an engine plant in the northwest Washington city of Bellingham. Nearly 30 of them had used fake documents, including made-up or stolen Social Security numbers, to gain employment.
Instead of commending ICE for doing its job, Napolitano chastised agency supervisors and ordered a swift investigation into the worksite raid because it broke President Barack Obama’s promise to the influential “La Raza” movement—that undocumented workers won’t be arrested. Immigration advocates say workplace raids are discriminatory, inhumane and they violate illegal aliens’ due process rights.
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