Your Lying DHS At Work

This is no surprise, but it's still rather infuriating (excerpts, emphasis mine):

In an apparent vendetta against a sheriff in Arizona who is tough on illegal immigration, the Obama administration has crossed another boundary. The treatment of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is yet another sign of the administration's dangerous hyperpoliticization of federal law enforcement.

In the course of a wider crime sweep on July 23 and 24 that netted numerous arrests, the sheriff's department requested permission from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain 13 illegal immigrants and transfer them to ICE's custody. The end result, amidst conflicting stories, was that all 13 illegals were let go.

Sheriff Arpaio blamed ICE. However, Matthew Chandler, Washington-based spokesman for the federal Department of Homeland Security (ICE's parent agency), issued a statement saying that "the determination to release these individuals lies solely within the [sheriff's office].... [On July 23], ICE gave the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office permission to interview the three individuals in question, arrest, and initiate removal proceedings -- instead Sheriff Arpaio released them."

Homeland Security's story doesn't pan out. The sheriff's deputies taped the calls to ICE. The recordings show that ICE repeatedly refused permission to take custody of the illegals.

"Right now we cannot authorize you to take her into custody," an ICE official said to one deputy about a woman who had admitted to being illegal. On another call, ICE said: "The only way we can [authorize detainment] is if he has a criminal record." A frustrated deputy replied, "We're just gonna kick him loose then." ICE said: "OK."

The obvious misinformation from the administration might be dismissed ordinarily as a spokesman's one-time goof except that it follows a pattern of misbehavior by Obama appointees that seems intended to undercut the controversial sheriff.

Forcing a sheriff to release illegal immigrants and then falsely blaming him for releasing them only adds legitimacy to those concerns.

Get used to it.  Or don't.  Instead, understand that this will happen precisely as long as the American people tolerate it; once We The People stand up and boot these liberal hacks out of office, we can finally get some honest and decent people in there to clean up the mess.  Call this an ever-present reminder of how dangerous liberals are to this nation in so many ways.

There's my two cents.