Senator Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee along with Subcommittee Chairman Jeff
Sessions (R-Ala.) and Senators David Vitter (R-La.), David Perdue
(R-Ga.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), all members of the Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest expressed deep
concern on the fate of employees in the Department of Homeland
Security that fulfilled their duties that they were sworn to uphold
in regards to the immigration laws. So concerned are they that they
have launched an investigation on potential workplace retaliation on
employees; citing Obama's recent comment that employees will face
consequences for refusing to comply with his executive actions
related to the illegal aliens.
The members have sent a letter to
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson requesting that he provide
detailed personnel disciplinary records for the past six years. They
requested that Mr. Johnson provide vital data on the multiple
allegations, that they have been made aware of through their
investigation, concerning DHS personnel being punished just for
trying to uphold U. S. laws. They request that the information they
seek is delivered to their offices by the closing of business on
April 13, 2015.
"On February 25, 2015, during a MSNBC/Telemundo town hall discussion at Florida International University in Miami, President Obama said: “There may be individual [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] officials or Border Patrol who aren’t paying attention to our new directives. But they’re going to be answerable to the head of the Department of Homeland Security, because he’s been very clear about what our priorities should be… If somebody is working for ICE and there is a policy and they don’t follow the policy, there are going to be consequences to it.””
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