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Click to Read Press Release- ICE Officers renew call for White House meeting after six weeks without a response

Mar 26 2013 - 3:45pm

Click to read press release: http://iceunion.org/download/2674-press-release-03-26-2013.pdf

USAToday article- ICE agents' union wants to slow immigration overhaul

Mar 26 2013 - 3:43pm

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The head of the union representing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents is calling on a bipartisan group of senators to slow down the push for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

Chris Crane, the head of the National ICE Council, wrote Tuesday to the so-called "Gang of Eight" — the lawmakers trying to negotiate a deal to overhaul the nation's immigration laws — that they should hear from ICE agents before they complete their immigration proposal.

National ICE Council Requests Meeting With 8 Senators Drafting Bipartisan Immigration Reform Bill

Mar 26 2013 - 3:14pm

Download copy of letter here: http://iceunion.org/download/2672-national-ice-council-meeting-request-32513.pdf

National ICE Council President Chris Crane sent a letter to the 8 Senators (referred to in the media as the "Gang of Eight") who are drafting a bipartisan immigration reform bill, asking them to meet with the Council and to consider the perspective of law enforcement officers in the field.

Article- ICE union head on immigration reform: ‘Zero confidence any promises of future enforcement will be fulfilled’

Mar 26 2013 - 3:02pm

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The head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent union says that he has no confidence that the Obama administration would step up its border control efforts as part of any immigration reform agreement.

Chris Crane, ICE officer and National ICE Council president representing 7,000 ICE agents, officers, and employees, expressed concern in a statement issued Friday that the “the immigration bill being crafted behind closed doors” by the bipartisan “gang of eight” senators “will be rushed to passage without proper public consideration and proper input from the law enforcement community.”

National Review article- ICE Union Boss: Don’t Rush Immigration Bill

Mar 26 2013 - 2:56pm

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With reports indicating that the so-called Gang of Eight in the Senate is close to a deal on immigration reform, the top union representative for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has expressed “very real concern” that the bill in question “will be rushed to passage” without proper consideration from the public and from the law-enforcement community.

“A mass legalization, or amnesty, of millions of illegal aliens, combined with an increase in future immigration, will have profound consequences for every law enforcement officer in the country and especially those who enforce our nation’s immigration laws,” ICE union president Chris Crane said in a statement on Friday. “But we have been shut out of the process.”