ICE Head apologizes for Halloween party

What a dope. This falls in the "What were they thinking?" category...Unbelievable how people really feel about things like race, immigration, class, etc...Dude shows up at a party in blackface as a convict and he's judged by Julie Myers, head of ICE, as ORIGINAL. Hmmmmm.....

The Department of Homeland Security will investigate a Halloween costume party hosted by a top immigration official and attended by a man dressed in a striped prison outfit, dreadlocks and darkened skin make-up, a costume some say is offensive, the department's secretary said.

Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, called the man's costume "offensive."Julie Myers, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and host of the fundraising party, was on a three-judge panel that originally praised the prisoner costume for "originality."Myers later apologized for "a few of the costumes," calling them "inappropriate and offensive." She said she and other senior managers "deeply regret that this happened."

Dow crashes, Immigration Fears

Get a clue.

The American economy is on the verge of laying a big fat goose egg....the housing bubble is really a bubble...and now the idiot GOP has riled everyone up so much that ICE is forced to play tough. Business - usually supported by the GOP -is quaking in its boots.

And so will you, the public, as your services and products are slower in coming because the people who make, do, provide, are swept out of the country. So when you have to wait 10 min for water in your favorite restaurant, or don't have childcare for your kids so you can work...pat yourselves on the back for driving out the "illegals" as you now have to do it for yourselves.

US businesses are bracing for a possible major crackdown on illegal foreign workers, as the government seeks to give immigration authorities more power to punish companies hiring undocumented workers.

President George W. Bush's administration has proposed a federal regulation that unions warn could lead to mass firings nationwide by companies seeking to avoid prosecution and fines. "It's going to put businesses all over the nation in a bind," said Tamar Jacoby, an immigration expert at the conservative Manhattan Institute.

"If the feds (federal authorities) really follow through with this, and I think they're going to, you're going to see lots of industries ... leave the US," Jacoby said. The rule under consideration in Washington relates directly to the potentially fraudulent use of Social Security numbers, which employees provide at the time of hiring. Fake Social Security cards are widely available on the black market, allowing many immigrants to work at major US corporations.