Endgame: The Office of Detention and Removal of the ICE/DHS

residentcynic at daily kos has put up an excellent post on just how the u.s. and our esteemed department of permanent detention for irritating and annoying people homeland security plans to solve the problem of aliens, potential terrorists and all of us who might disagree with or oppose the policies of our government...

I recently spent some time on the web researching the Bush Doctrine and neocon (Straussian)-based policy. What I didn’t expect to find was an operational government program which targets immigrants and "potential terrorists" on a grand scale. Never missing an opportunity for Orwellian titles, the Department of Homeland Security has named this little gem "ENDGAME." [PDF]

Its goal is "the removal of all removable aliens, (including illegal economic migrants, aliens who have committed criminal acts, asylum-seekers required to be retained by law) or potential terrorists." (Executive summary of document)

Can't "potential terrorist" mean, well, anybody?

it's worth reading and i definitely encourage you to do so...

here's the cover page and introduction of the endgame document [PDF] referenced above...





be sure to note the date, 27 june 2003... public law 107-296 [PDF], which established dhs, was passed by congress on 25 november 2002... the office of detention and removal, the unit responsible for the execution of the endgame strategy, was not integrated into dhs until march 2003, not long after dhs began operation as a department... this 49-page strategy was published a mere 6 months after dhs was established and a mere 4 months after the unit was incorporated into dhs... this tells me that the strategy was on the shelf, ready to go long before that...

another interesting item is that the endgame strategy [PDF] references the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798...

The Detention and Deportation Program, now the Office of Detention and Removal (DRO), was established in a 1955 reorganization of the INS to carry out a mission first articulated in the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. The Alien and Sedition Acts included the earliest deportation legislation, which empowered the
President to order the departure from the United States of all aliens deemed dangerous. Legislation since then has expanded the detention and removal operations and redefined the classes of aliens to be deported or excluded. The basic mission, however, remains the same: Remove all removable aliens.

for those of you who may not be familiar, here's a little bit about the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798...

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the Federalists in the United States Congress in 1798 during the administration of President John Adams, which was waging an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. Proponents claimed they were designed to protect the United States from alien citizens of enemy powers and to stop seditious attacks from weakening the government. The Democratic-Republicans, like later historians, attacked them as being both unconstitutional and designed to stifle criticism of the administration, and as infringing on the right of the states to act in these areas. They became a major political issue in the elections of 1798 and 1800. One act (the Alien Enemies Act) is still in force in 2007, and has frequently been enforced in wartime. The others expired or were repealed by 1802. Thomas Jefferson held them all to be unconstitutional and void, and pardoned and ordered the release of all who had been convicted of violating them.

i haven't finished unpacking yet after coming back from argentina via texas... maybe i should just leave the stuff in my bags in case i have to make a hasty exit when they come for me...

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