Since the Washington Post spoiled the surprise and published a report about the Trump Administration’s plan to arrest thousands of migrant families who have been denied asylum – prompting the administration to cancel the raids – many have probably been wondering why somebody inside would break President Trump’s longstanding policy of not telegraphing your moves in advance.
Well, now that question appears to have been answered by the Washington Examiner: The acting head of DHS, Kevin McAleenan, reportedly leaked the details of the operation (he traveled alongside the WaPo reporter who broke the story earlier this week) in what sources described as a deliberate attempt to sabotage the raids.
According to several sources who spoke with the Examiner, McAleenan had opposed the raids for months. The acting DHS head, who has been credited with pushing the policy of sending more agents to Guatemala, is said to be more concerned with what Congressional Democrats and the ‘Never Trumpers’ think of his performance than most other members of the administration.
“I know he has not approved of this operation for months,” one person familiar with those private conversations said during a phone call Saturday night. “The president wouldn’t leak that. ICE wouldn’t leak that. There’s only a few people involved in these discussions…the only one who could have shared the details of those operations were Kevin.”
“That’s our belief,” a second official said when asked if McAleenan was behind the leak. “The secretary was not supportive from day one.”
The White House said it had called off the operation to allow more time for lawmakers to work on a plan to fix legal “loopholes” that have helped to entice migrants to come to the US. In reality, McAleenan successfully stymied the operation by exposing the broad strokes. McAleenan allegedly told WaPo that the mass roundups would take place in 10 cities, including Chicago, Miami and Houston. The mayor of Chicago ordered Chicago Police not to grant ICE access to its databases, and refuse to cooperate in any way with the raids.
One officials said that, by leaking the details of the raid, McAleenan might have been trying to “be the martyr” in the face of blowback against Trump’s immigration policies. That is, he was trying to distance himself from the administration’s decision making.
The third anonymous source quoted by the Examiner blasted McAleenan as a sucker for ‘Never Trumpers’ and ‘liberals’ and insisted the leak would “leave an un-erasable mark” on his time at the head of DHS.
A third official claimed McAleenan “cares more about what liberals and ‘Never Trumpers’ in Congress and the media think of him the achieving the express mission of his department.”
“[T]his will leave an un-erasable mark on his tenure,” the third official wrote in a text message Saturday evening.
Leaking the information would only have “benefitted one person” who had knowledge of the plan, according to the first person, who added there was “no doubt in my mind” McAleenan either told the Post himself or had a close comrade at DHS take care of it.
“His hands were dirty,” that same official said.
ICE advised the administration to cancel the raids after the leaks not only because targets might have been tipped off by the news and fled wherever they had been staying, but because the leaks could put agents in danger.
“Leaking the locations and details to stop the operation from happening not only harmed operational integrity, but it put the safety and well-being of his own officers in jeopardy,” the third official wrote.
“That’s law enforcement sensitive information. You just don’t reveal that,” the second official said. “It gets people hyped up. It gets the NGOs activated, and then anyone wearing a jacket with the ICE name on it is really chastised. Cities are coming out saying, ‘Here’s how you can protect yourself against it.'”
So the acting DHS head deliberately obstructed a massive immigration action because he was worried about what liberals might think. If this is accurate, we might see even more turmoil over at DHS…and Stephen Miller might have an easier time bringing the administration’s immigration policy completely under his purview.
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Someone should get canned. Democrats prefer illegal aliens over citizens.
Prosecuted! This is obstruction of justice. The people Trump said he was after had been ordered deported in a court.
What, you have a problem with being replaced? It’s nothing personal.
You’re merely an obsolete piece of voting equipment and you’re being replaced with a newer, cheaper, more reliable, less complicated model. Nobody cared what the buggy whip thought when the automobile was invented and they don’t care now what you think about it, either.
“You’re fired”
How do you spell traitor?
McAleenan.
How come all these punks look alike?
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A Brave New World
You guys are dupes. My guess is they know it will not pan out so they manufacture a ready excuse; we got told on. They don’t have the manpower or budget to grab half a million let alone 20 million people of questionable documentation. I put it that way because some folks have documents but they are forged.
On one hand, we are letting in a shitload of people and on the other, we propose to round up a shitload of people. They already say they released the newcomers into the states pending processing which would take a long time due to the backlog. Now they want to round up people who have been here several years so they can deport them. This all sounds like election year high jinks; let the crazy begin.
Think of it as job security for the enforcers….why allow them in, in the first place, bus them all over and then turn around and deport them?
Just another fucking Traitor . I wonder how long it’s going to take before somebody starts killing these people. Nothing else is going to stop this shit.
You just made someone’s list…
They are processing these people into the land of the FREE(shit) as fast as they can. That is silly to believe they are going to round them up and send them back after getting them hooked up with a section 8 housing lease. Walmart needs THEM and their new EBT card. Who is kidding who here?
It is my understanding that those that were to be rounded up are those that have already been denied asylum by U.S. courts. They are not the same status as those they have been apprehended, given a court date (which they will not comply with 90% of the time) and have scurried into hiding spots across the country. Those to be deported have been legally denied asylum.
Nkit is right. They were only targeting a few thousand of the worst. But there is something far more insidious at work here. If this cretin isn’t arrested and charged and found guilty and put in prison for this then he was either doing the dark lords bidding, or he has the protection of the mighty. I suspect that he has the hand of god over his head just as hillary does. Just as they all do who seek to destroy your lives and your freedoms. He get’s the free pass? Why?
I thought that Trump tweeted the raid first. I don’t recall ever reading about it from wapo.
TRUST SESSIONS.
HF, just out of curiosity, have any TBPers RSVP’d for your New Hampshire Hayride and Hog Festival? When is it?
I remember the date to be the 6th of July, exactly one year since I won a couple of stents and then a quadruple bypass joyride……… I hope he has rec’d a bunch, and harvests a load of ripe memories from the day !
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- TRUST SESSIONS indeed !
Orange suit? If not, why not (a semi-rhetorical question)?
Whatever happened with all those sealed indictments? A real chess board is only 8 squares by 8 squares. My back feels wet but there isn’t a cloud in the sky.
Days like this I would vote to compost all the RINO’s first.
That was Trump’s campaign promise, “no asylum; you all got to go; don’t come here, you’re not getting in.
The main reason I voted for him…..sounds like a con job.
Trump said Pelosi was the one who asked him to cancel the raids, right? What a fucking shit show.
Last I looked,,,,insubordination is grounds for employment termination.
I don’t know if there are legal consequences?
Brennan still has his security clearance and the man who was charged with taking it (Dan Coats) still has a job.
How is this not sedition? Shouldn’t he get a federal trial?
Self-serving fuck! Jeopardizes the lives of men and women protecting us by leaking raids. I hope he gets what he has coming to him
Fire him, have a fair trial, and then give him a nice long vacation in prison.
Feed him to the pigs!
All DOJ needs to do is announce that every illegal, since they’re breaking the law every day they’re here, is guilty of RICO violations for their part in operating an illegal criminal enterprise, and may thus be targeted by LLE for arrest and seizure of all assets as part of that illegal criminal operation. Let cops at all levels loose to seize all the cash, property, vehicles, illegal businesses, bank accounts, etc they can find and have these criminals returned to their shitholes of origin.
Additionally, since this is only a half-measure, declare it entirely illegal for illegal aliens to receive any public assistance using federal tax dollars. No aid of any kind. Not even public education, free lunches, etc. As criminals, they are not eligible to receive assistance of any type.
Also, declare any business or private person caught employing them to be aiding and abetting in the commission of that federal crime, so they can be arrested, fined, or worse for every individual violation. Seize their assets for shits and giggles.
Finally, lean on the states and local governments to align their laws with the federal laws, or see all federal aid halted. Additionally, resistant communities, like Chicago above, see a cut-off of federal funds and cooperation at all levels. No federal money. Cut the roads leading in for emergency infrastructure inspections. Shutter power plants for emergency safety inspections. Close the ports, airports, railroad stations, etc. They wouldn’t be able to hold out for long. And seize their assets while you investigate them for their crimes. Why not arrest the most vocal ring leaders for their part in the crime?
With no benefits, no legit work, and no way to hold property, they would probably begin to self-deport. OH- and for the jellyfish- their anchor babies go home with them until they’re 18 or they stay with family. They never get to bring their illegal family members back in, either.
If DHS can’t figure out how to catch illegals, Walmart and CostCo are in practically every town. Just start there.
Do politicians care about animals? Then they should care that illegal aliens are involved in wildlife trafficking, a $10 billion industry that harms vulnerable animal populations and brings various endangered species closer to extinction. The most commonly trafficked endangered animal seizures into the United States are coral parrots and lizards Of the 4,968 live endangered animal seizures, 257 have been of animal species that face a threat of extinction. What other animals do illegal aliens crossing US border smuggle in? They smuggle in rare breed puppies, kittens, wild jungle cats and kittens torn from the mothers in the wild, sea turtles, baby bobcats, snakes, spider monkeys, praire pups, Iguanas, exotic bats, Toucans, baby Anteaters, Margays, capuchins, armadillos, etc…But yeah, sure, go ahead and support these intelligent Politicans who think there’s nothing wrong with illegal immigration. Tell that to the defenseless animals smuggled across the desert or drown in rivers during the journey. Who speaks for them? Do the research into animal trafficking over the US border.
In May 2018, for example, three aliens crossed the border into Texas with a black duffel bag, which they abandoned when they realized there were Border Patrol agents nearby. When agents searched the bag, they discovered an UNCONSCIOUS JAGUAR CUB. Imagine how many other vulnerable animals are smuggled across US borders daily without anyone knowing!! Everyday in the USA, on our borders, it happens. And politicians do nothing about it by doing nothing to stop illegal immigration.
Have you ever heard Pelosi give a damn about these animals? Nope. She’s so disconnected from cause and effect reality she wouldn’t know. Just another barricaded elite grandstanding to media while she lives behind her fenced and gated home with her animals safe and bodyguards proteting her. Living in an ivory tower. Far away from reality. Looking down at the dumb Americans who vote for people like her. The Democrats and Republicans have done nothing to stop illegal immigration. But it’s mostly the Democrats who don’t want to stop it because the controversy generates votes. How sick is that? This hurts animals. Does Pelosi, AOC or any of these champions of illegal aliens care about these animals? Nope. That’s why we need an effective border wall, more mass deportations (to discourage further illegal crossing) and more border patrol officers to stop attempts to cross illegally into USA. The animals are depending on us to do something.
Still more, Illegal aliens throw their trash in the cacti among the desert turtles. Desert Turtles have been exposed to batteries, cell phones, clothes, human food, homemade weapons, human waste, jeans, medications, radios, razors, ropes, soap, and water bottles, according to Daily Star reporter Tony Davis. In short, desert animals and plant life have been trampled and harmed by illegal aliens. But CNN won’t show that, right? Fox news doesn’t even show it. Who is speaking up for these defenseless animals!? Politicians don’t care about the animals involved in illegal immigraiton because animals don’t vote. Do your damn jobs politicians! Quit wasting time in front of cameras and manipulating voters with your phony, fake emotional sob stories. Illegal immigration is hurting animals daily. Stop illegal immigration into USA.