By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The DEA continues to seize and destroy less marijuana under the Obama administration, the Washington Post reports. Last year the DEA destroyed 4.3 million marijuana plants, compared to 10.4 million in 2009. The “cannabis eradication program” provides money to local and state law enforcement agencies to destroy marijuana plants. But those…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Not even six hours passed before politicians began injecting the terrorist attack in Paris into budget debates. CNN reports that Republicans are trying to add ammunition to their upcoming budgetary battle with Democrats by claiming President Obama’s new immigration policies hamper Homeland Security’s fight against terrorism. Republicans are expected to unveil…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration is going explore the need for deploying National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border, the Washington Post reports. The administration has dispatched a team of military and national security officials to examine whether the Rio Grande Valley would benefit from a military “temporary assist.” Despite objections from Democrats, Texas…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Border Patrol may have enough employees to handle the flood of immigration, but the Associated Press found that the agency places too many agents in the wrong places. The AP report indicates that many agents are stationed in areas where crossing activity is slow because of the “constantly shifting migration patterns.”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Throngs of Central American women and children are forced to stay in squalid, cramped conditions at a Border Patrol station in McAllen, Texas, the Washington Post reports. Video obtained by the Washington Post shows children sleeping on concrete floors in sweltering heat for days. The migrants are fed tacos and bologna sandwiches…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Secret Service said it’s not worried about surreptitiously captured video of President Obama working out in a hotel in Poland, the Associated Press reports. A hotel guest is believed to have captured the video, which has gone viral on the Internet. The video offers a candid look at President Obama grimacing…
By Kara Brandeisky ProPublica Today, the Department of Justice outlined expanded criteria that could allow prisoners convicted of non-violent crimes to win early release from prison. Under the new initiative, the Office of the Pardon Attorney will fast-track commutation applications from inmates who have served more than 10 years for non-violent offenses and who were well-behaved while imprisoned….
By San Francisco Gate Editorial Board When Barack Obama ran for the White House in 2008, federal inmates and their families believed that if he won, miracles would follow. They were convinced that the former law professor and critic of federal mandatory minimum sentences would be liberal with his unfettered constitutional power to free low-level…
