ICE criticized for "cowboy mentality"

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is finally trying the patience of the local officials who have to deal with the aftermath of aggressive and often indiscriminate ICE raids targeting illegal immigrants nationwide:

GARDEN CITY. N.Y. - Long Island officials complained loudly this week about a series of immigration raids, accusing federal agents of a "cowboy mentality" that could have put local police in harm's way.

The attack on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was so sharp that a congressman stepped in to try and broker a peace.

But such complaints are becoming increasingly common, with local officials from Nevada to Nassau County saying they are fed up with the federal war on illegal immigration. [AP]

Long Island officials are especially concerned paramilitary-style raids are endangering the local cops who collaborate with ICE.

Comments

[B-Money]

Nice cowboy stories but talk about being way off topic...

[cfrost]

Nice cowboy stories but talk about being way off topic...

Yep, waaay off topic. But then the topic's kind of depressing.

[B-Money]

Indeed cfrost, indeed.

[B-Money]

I truly did enjoy the cowboy stories and the story of your grandmother though.

[Dock Miles]

>Her childhood was spent on horseback, she and her siblings helped with all the tasks on the ranch as soon as they grew able to do so. The daughters did everything except drive the cattle to market. There was no real good reason, in my grandmother’s opinion, that the girls should not help with the drive.

This peculiar gender division -- keep it at home, never as a job -- is true to my experiences, as well. A very few exceptionally talented women were able to turn expert rope and horseback skills into rodeo gigs.