The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security recently hired Michelle Branet to serve as the agency’s immigration detention ombudsman, according to a report Wednesday. announcement From DHS.
Blane previously served as executive director of the department’s Family Reunification Task Force and has been an outspoken critic of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In several posts about X, Blane accused ICE of “abusive enforcement.”
“ICE already receives billions of taxpayer dollars to detain asylum seekers,” she said. I have written “They don’t need any more.”
In another post from 2017, Blane said The agency argued that “detention cannot be carried out humanely.”
“It is time to use alternatives and stop using the prison model for civil immigration cases,” she declared.
Thomas Homan, former Acting Director of ICE said“If you wait, [non-criminal undocumented immigrants] If you violate yet another law against the citizens of this country, it will be too late. We shouldn’t wait for them to become criminals. ”
Mr. Blanet responded to Mr. Homan’s comments: write In X, “Sounds like a police state.”
She repeatedly criticized the Trump administration, claiming the former president’s DHS separated migrant children from their parents.
“Once again, the brutality of this administration and its border policies in punishing those seeking protection is shocking: separating newborns from their mothers and lying about hospital policies,” Brané said in 2020.
In his new role at DHS, Blanet will be responsible for reviewing ICE’s detention of illegal immigrants.
John Feer, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies and former chief of staff for ICE under the Trump administration, told the paper. new york post Selecting Mr. Blanet for the post would be like “putting an arsonist in charge of overseeing the U.S. Forest Service,” he said.
“My guess is that she will use her new powers to undermine ICE’s detention efforts through excessive auditing and the release of illegal aliens based on unsubstantiated and false charges,” Fiele said. said.
Former ICE Field Director John Fabricatore told the Post that DHS’s decision to appoint Blane “raises serious questions about the direction and priorities of ICE under the current administration.” .
“Mr. Blaine’s previous claims that ICE’s efforts to pre-emptively arrest illegal aliens to prevent further crimes amount to a ‘police state’ are problematic for someone seeking to hold a high-ranking position in law enforcement. “It highlights a certain perspective,” Fabricatore said.
DHS did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
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