Despite our disagreements on immigration, unions and host of other issues, I have respect for libertarians like Bruce Fein and Ron Paul who took a lot of arrows in the back from fellow Republicans during the Bush years for opposing FISA, domestic spying, warrentless wiretapping, the wars and the bank bailout.
The federal immigration agents' union endorsed Trump.
But at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing convened by Representative Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, the president of an immigration agents' union, Chris Crane, delivered scathing criticism of the administration, saying officials are pandering to immigrant groups at the expense of public security.
But in a new sign of the deep dissension over immigration, the union representing some 7,000 deportation officers of the agency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, has so far not allowed its members to participate in the training.
A letter to Congress that excoriates the Senate proposal, and that the immigration officers' union signed for the first time, reveals simmering unrest among Homeland Security employees, who have been asked to carry out broad and fast-paced immigration policy shifts by the Obama administration.
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida and chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Eliseo Vásquez Medina, secretary and treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, will be on Telemundo to talk about issues particularly important to Hispanic voters in the presidential election, including immigration and union rights.
I stand together with civil rights activists, immigration activists, union members and working Americans to denounce this hateful law that brings forth the ugly practices we have fought together to end.
The letters from the immigration officers' unions was quickly circulated by Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a Republican who staunchly opposes the bill.
To the consternation of many stalwarts in California's highly conservative Republican Party, Mr. Riordan, 72, is campaigning by avoiding many of the things his party has stood for -- tax cuts, in particular -- and adopting a liberal social agenda on issues like abortion, immigration, gay unions and education.
