The primary reason I decided to write this paper is due to the fact that the problems in the management and accountability of firearms at the Legacy U.S. Customs Service now known as ICE continued and undoubtedly continues to be a problem at ICE. Plus the employees involved in misconduct keep getting promoted. Welcome to DHS-ICE: More Badges of Dishonor.

Honorable United States President Barack Obama:  Please grant a full pardon, vindication, and removal of the felony conviction of former United States Border Patrol Agents Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos, Jr., and Jose Alonso Compean.  Please do it on September 16, 2009, Mexico's Independence Day. 

Open Letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. re: Chief Mark Kappelhoff, Civil Rights Divison

August 16, 2009

The Honorable Attorney General Eric Holder Jr.

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20530

Dear Attorney General Holder:

The Mission of the U.S. Department of Justice

“To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.” – www.usdoj.gov

Another Open Letter to President Barack Obama regarding the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its subordinate agencies: Strip some power from local managers, with headquarters taking greater control of promotions, discipline, hiring and policy decisions

An Open Letter for U.S. President Barack Obama Regarding Racial Profiling in the United States.

July 31, 2009

President Barack Obama

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

I am a retired federal law enforcement officer. When I was forced out into retirement on March 3, 2006 by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a subordinate agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, I was 51. Because I decided to exercise my U.S. Constitutional Rights by filing a class action complaint of discrimination in 1995 with the EEOC in Detroit, Michigan and on May 10, 2002, in U.S. District Court, Washington, D.C. my fate was sealed. In 2007, our Hispanic class action suit got dismissed on one issue: Pattern and Practice Claim. Some members decided to pursue their cases by filing individual EEO complaints at the EEOC. However, I don’t know who is in charge at the EEOC under your administration, under different U.S. Presidents, American taxpayers used to get our letters or telephone calls answered by some federal agencies, now, very seldom a letter is answered.

DHS-ICE: a fitness for duty psychiatric examination that failed and in the porcess a Customs SAC got demoted, an associate legal counsel resigned and a RAC retired. Why my son is embarrassed to say his daddy is a retired Customs-ICE special agent.          

DHS-ICE: Systematic Corruption, Racial Profiling, Mismanagement, Discrimination, Retaliation, and Harassment To Continue.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was formed in 2003.  Former President George W. Bush besides destroying our economy, he also destroyed the U.S. Customs Service, or at least the name, because the cancerous tumor (civil service career employees) was merely split into several agencies.  The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Inspector General (OIG), the alleged "watchdog" of all agencies was reduced in size, while DHS' OIG is growing and getting bigger.  Some of the cases or names mentioned in this report have been already covered by co-publisher Bill Conroy, author of the House of Death series.

I tried to get the attention of President Barack Obama, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. through channels but I got tired of waiting.  Since I will never receive justice or my day in court I will try to prove the justice in America which is supposed to be blind is not blind at all.

You all who follow these stories know that John Carman who used to write extensively about corruption at the U.S. Customs Service had an encounter with the FBI during an undercover "sting" operation.  Carman who was a licensed private detective (PI) fell into their trap and got federally indicted, convicted and sentenced, for a crime that after you read would make you wonder about our federal law enforcement system.  I have also a small business PI which am in the process of closing.  I got tired of receiving some questionable business proposals of people who want to hire me to do certain things, which a PI is supposed to do.  Sorry but I have been around the block.

I still believe that the real threat to our national security is within our own federal departments and agencies and the people who are running these government organizations at the taxpayers' expense.

An example of how legacy US Customs used to manipulate the US Treasury's OIG in order to retaliate against Customs employees who tried to use their U.S. Constitutional Rights

On December 16, 1999, RICHARD I. LEAF, Special Agent in Charge (SAC), Office of Inspector General (OIG), Office of Investigations, U.S. Department of the Treasury, P. O. Box 723, El Segundo, CA 90245 sent a memorandum to MICHAEL C. TARR, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations regarding a complaint.

RICHARD I. LEAF had already decided to open an investigation under case number 1999-0567 regarding a referral from the U.S. Customs Service’s (Customs) Office of Internal Affairs (OIA) HQ, Washington, D.C. basically directing LEAF’s office to investigate this writer for telling “a subject arrested for smuggling marijuana into the United States, not to cooperate with agents of the USCS, Office of Investigations (OI). It was also alleged that this writer asked a special Assistant U.S. Attorney be released from custody, however, once released, the subject failed to appear in court.

Democrats: Breaking President Obama? - Only if he fails to deliever what he promised on his campaign.

President Obama and the US Congress must appoint a special prosecutor to investigate DHS and all subordinate agencies.  DHS and these agencies keep wasting American txapayers dollars at will without any oversight.  Allegedly they operate under the oversight of the DHS' Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) but only on paper and not actions.

DHS-ICE’s drunken supervisor tries to release subordinate arrested ICE agent by force from police custody

I hesitated for a while about posting some information obtained from the files of the Yuma Police Department regarding the arrest of Russell John BASH, born in 1965. However, after I reviewed the police reports several times; our United States Citizens deserve to know about the employees who represent and defend us from any national security threat. The actions committed by BASH and CREDE if evaluated by a neutral and impartial ICE’s Employment and Labor Relations and ICE lawyer, will result in some severe adverse personnel action against CREDE and to some extent BASH.