Remember the San Bernardino shootings? You know, that cold-blooded terrorist massacre perpetrated by a US citizen and his foreign-born spouse?\u00a0 The spouse who DHS allowed to enter the country in in spite of the fact that she’d made social media postings supporting violent jihad; where DHS didn’t bother even to check her social media posts because it was against DHS policy to do so; and who DHS never interviewed in person as required under Federal law before allowing them to immigrate?<\/p>\n
Well, looks like this one gets \u201ccuriouser and curiouser\u201d still with respect to DHS’s actions.<\/p>\n
The two dead terrorists who perpetrated that attack got their weapons from a straw buyer \u2013 Enrique Martinez \u2013 who was a friend of the husband. The FBI determined this shortly after the attack.<\/p>\n
Martinez had a scheduled interview at the San Bernardino US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office the day after the attack<\/em>. FBI officials found out about that interview; they requested that their LE counterparts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detain Martinez as a person of interest so that they could interview him about the matter.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, that didn’t go too well.<\/p>\n When the ICE agents went to the San Bernardino USICS office as requested by the FBI, they were refused entry<\/span>. They were unable to detain Martinez.<\/p>\n Yeah, you read that right.\u00a0 The Federal personnel running that ICS office refused to allow Federal LE personnel acting at the request of the FBI to enter their facility and detain a person of interest in a terrorism case.<\/p>\n Tell me that isn\u2019t evidence of a seriously out-of-whack set of priorities.\u00a0 In my book, when Federal immigration services personnel start ignoring requests from Federal LE to detain persons of interest in terrorist attacks something is seriously effed up.<\/p>\n