Julie L. Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will leave the Bush administration on Nov. 15.

ICE spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said, “She is very passionate about these [immigration] issues and will carry that passion into future endeavors.”

Myers is an unqualified Bush stooge, who was installed into power by a “recess appointment,“ a constitutional provision that Bush has mis-used often during his corrupt and bloody reign.

Since her appointment, Ms. Myers has presided over a dramatic increase in anti-immigrant enforcement activities and spending at the $5 billion agency, setting records for three fiscal years in arrests and deportation of immigrants.

Driven by the most savage talk radio and cable news anti-immigrant propaganda campaign in America’s history, Myers, during her tenure unleashed an unprecedented crackdown on undocumented workers.

Deportations have soared to record levels during her tenure, which drew condemnations from civil liberties and immigrant advocacy groups, which say ICE violated humanitarian standards and trampled on due process rights by using criminal-style tactics and charges in massive roundups of workers.

Myers also oversaw a burgeoning detention system whose growth has led to noncriminal immigrant detainees often being medically neglected.

Early this year Photographs emerged of Myers at a 2007 Halloween office party honoring a white employee dressed as an escaped prisoner with dreadlocks and makeup that made him look African American or Hispanic.

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I strongly believe that her resignation has everything to do with the investigation that has been launched as to who broke the law in leaking the immigration status of Barack Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango?

Note: ICE officials are “prohibited from commenting on any individual’s status or the status of any case.”

Tim Dickinson at Rolling Stone questioned whether Myers may have been the source of the unauthorized leak.

Yes, the stinking BITCH is the source!

This Republican woman is a RACIST — part of the racist anti-immigrant movement (that has infiltrated ICE), which has been stinking up America in the last two years — Immigrant hate sanctioned by the Bush Administration and propagated by Cable News, Talk-Radio and the Right-Wing blogosphere….resulting in merciless thuggery on immigrants by ICE and NEO-NAZI lynchers.

The toxic fear and loathing perpetuated by Republicans like Lou Dobbs and the Syphilitic NAZIS at Fox News, cost McCain dearly this election cycle. Sixty Six percent of Latino voters cast their votes for Obama, and I am sure similarly, large numbers of other immigrant groups did likewise.

What McCain and the GOP totally mis-judged, is that when you scare “Illegal Immigrants,” the hate from the right-wing spills over to “Legal Immigrants,” and in order to protect themselves, immigrants ganged up against McCain and voted for Obama in buckets.

Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau paint a clear picture: By as early as 2023, more than half of all children in the United States, will be members of what are now minority groups, an evolution fueled significantly by a baby boom among recent immigrants. By 2050, they will make up more than 60 percent of all American children.

By 2050, the number of Americans of Hispanic origin will double to comprise a third of the American population. The Asian population is projected to nearly triple, to 9.2 percent of the population. And as those populations mingle, the number of people who identify themselves as being of two or more races will more than triple.

The result will be a United States in which the so-called white majority will, for the first time, be in the minority.

The consequence: If the Republican party continues on the same HATE-MONGERING path — preaching intolerance and white supremacy, these young sons and daughters of immigrants will continue to flock to the Democratic party, and may well render the Republican party, a regional and fringe party.

Internet sources indicate that Myers’s has a sadistic and cold-hearted reputation — quite evident by her treatment of immigrants, especially helpless immigrant children born in the United States, to their undocumented parents — who are being rounded up like “diseased cattle” all over the United States.

By this criminal woman’s actions, it is very clear that she never expected Obama to win this election, and in all probability, it is GUILT that has driven her to resign — before the Obama train catches up with her.

If it is determined that Myers was responsible for the illegal leakage of Onyango’s immigration status, contrary to laid down law, she should be punished accordingly. Further more, the inhuman and racist anti-immigrant GESTAPO TACTICS she presided over at ICE should be dismantled forthwith!

Watch out ReTHUGlicans! …..the son of a KENYAN IMMIGRANT has just “snared” the White House

….and may GOD bless him ….and may GOD DAMN the Republican Party.

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Yusif Osman’s Body
Yusif Osman was a U.S. legal resident from Ghana and had been living in Los Angeles for five years. After a companion carrying false ID landed him in immigration detention, Osman was facing deportation on smuggling charges, an allegation he denied. While at an immigration detention center outside San Diego, he died suddenly. His story highlights the poor care some immigrants have received in the scores of immigration facilities across the United States.

As Tighter Immigration Policies Strain Federal Agencies, The Detainees in Their Care Often Pay a Heavy Cost.

The detainees have less access to lawyers than convicted murderers in maximum-security prisons and some have fewer comforts than al-Qaeda terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

But they are not terrorists. Most are working-class men and women or indigent laborers who made mistakes that seem to pose no threat to national security: a Salvadoran who bought drugs in his 20th year of poverty in Los Angeles; a U.S. legal U.S. resident from Mexico who took $50 for driving two undocumented day laborers into a border city. Or they are waiting for political asylum from danger in their own countries: a Somali without a valid visa trying to prove she would be killed had she remained in her village; a journalist who fled Congo out of fear for his life, worked as a limousine driver and fathered six American children, but never was able to get the asylum he sought.

The most vulnerable detainees, the physically sick and the mentally ill, are sometimes denied the proper treatment to which they are entitled by law and regulation. They are locked in a world of slow care, poor care and no care, with panic and coverups among employees watching it happen, according to a Post investigation.

Osman’s death is a single tragedy in a larger story of life, death and often shabby medical care within an unseen network of special prisons for foreign detainees across the country. Some 33,000 people are crammed into these overcrowded compounds on a given day, waiting to be deported or for a judge to let them stay here.

[.....Read The Post investigation's -- FULL REPORT]

1. Hidden Emergency: Yusif Osman’s Story

2. A Closer Look At 83 Deaths — Based on confidential medical records and other sources, The Washington Post identified 83 deaths of immigration detainees between March 2003, when the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was created, and March 2008. The Post found that 30 of the deaths were questionable — roll over the red triangles on the map for their details..

3. Careless Detention: Suicides Point to Gaps in Treatment | Errors in Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs Plague Strained Immigration System

4. VIDEO: 60 minutes Video

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