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Heckuva job.

Back in November, when the latest Julie Myers fiasco broke out, I said I had no tears for her. She’s the crony DHS head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau whose unpreparedness for the job I’ve spotlighted repeatedly over the years. When word spread about her photo-op at a Halloween party with a [...]

As you may have heard, ICE chief Julie Myers is in trouble over her stupid Halloween costume flap:
Just when it appeared Julie Myers had cleared every hurdle in her quest to officially become the nation’s top immigration official, a dreadlocked wig and a prisoner’s outfit could cost her the job.
Myers, director of Immigration and Customs [...]

Cronyism plus dhimmitude = insanity.

“No immediate threat.” Highway 176 near Goose Creek, SC, shut down after police discover “possible explosives” in a car with two alleged Middle Eastern men. Goose Creek is home to the Naval Weapons Station and the US Naval Consolidated Brig.

The good news:
Federal agents raided six Swift & Co. processing plants in six states on Tuesday in search of illegal immigrants who stole the identities of lawful U.S. residents and used their Social Security numbers to get jobs at the beef and pork company.
Agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency executed search warrants at [...]

Brian J. Doyle: Just one of many creeps and losers at DHS
The arrest of Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian J. Doyle on felony charges of sexually preying on a undercover cop posing as a 14-year-old girl this week is just the latest debacle for the bureaucratic behemoth.
I dealt with Doyle a few times while [...]

I’ve been neglecting news at our borders this week. As usual, so have most of our politicians. Here’s the weekend round-up:
Feds find weapons cache near Mexican border:
A federal task force seized arsenals of illegal weapons and homemade bombs in Laredo, Texas, in connection with a Mexican drug trafficking battle, authorities said Friday.
The feds captured more [...]

Scary, I know. But we all agree: The recess appointment of Julie Myers to head DHS’s Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement sucks. It’s a bad move–especially now, when the White House is touting its commitment to fighting the War on Terror and securing the homeland. To quote VP Dick Cheney: “Either we are serious [...]

So, President Bush is at the border this week paying lip service to new “immigration reform”–even as he pushes his same old, enforcement-undermining amnesty plan.
Back at the Department of Homeland [In]Security, crony nominee Julie Myers has may be given a recess appointment to head up the Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency, reports Debbie Schlussel. And [...]

Just getting word: ICE nominee Julie Myers voted out of the Homeland Security Committee 7-2.
Sigh.

Before the quag-Miers, (hat tip: Confederate Yankee for the term) there was the other quag-Myers. That is: Julie Myers, a Bush lawyer with virtually no immigration and customs enforcement experience and minimal managerial experience who has been nominated to head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. She just happens to be niece of recently [...]

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What Julie Myers is to the Department of Homeland Security, Harriet Miers is to the Supreme Court. (Video of the announcement here via NYT).) It’s not just that Miers has zero judicial experience. It’s that she’s so transparently a crony/”diversity” pick while so many other vastly more qualified and impressive candidates [...]

Jerry Seper at the Washington Times reports on more negative reaction to the Bush administration’s troubled nomination of Julie Myers to head the already troubled U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency:
President Bush’s nominee to head U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drawn the ire of several ICE supervisors and agents who say she is [...]

The editors of National Review come out against the Julie Myers nomination. Excerpts:
Given the importance of the position and a history of mismanagement in the immigration service, Congress took the unusual step of inserting a statutory requirement that nominees have a minimum of five years of experience in both management and law enforcement. Even a [...]

My new column on the boneheaded Julie Myers nomination is up.
The Roanoke Times weighs in against the nomination.
Maureen Dowd tries to do her best impression of a liberal who cares about border security. No need to pay or register. Just look at the headline and summary.
And via AP, there’s this news of how dense Democrats [...]

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Another disastrous crony appointment in the making
This is Julie Myers, President Bush’s nominee to head the the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security.
Her nomination is a joke. A bad joke: (via WaPo)
The Bush administration is seeking to appoint a lawyer with little immigration or customs experience to head the [...]