Color-Coded Cronyism At DHS

By Michelle Malkin

Who needs the government to tell us the status of homeland security? If you're not seeing five-alarm red over the perpetual chaos at DHS, you need to call the eye doctor.

The Ontario (Calif.) Daily Bulletin reported Tuesday that Border Patrol agents are now ratting out Minutemen, immigration enforcement volunteers who have broken no laws, to Mexico. [ U.S. tipping Mexico to Minuteman patrols, By Sara A. Carter]Yes, we are paying our federal immigration officers to gather intelligence on our own citizens—and then turn it over to a foreign government intent on sabotaging our sovereignty.

Deportation officers across the country continue to report that "catch and release" of illegal aliens remains the order of the day. A memo I obtained last week outlined desperate deck-chair shuffling by Border Patrol supervisors who are pulling dozens of detention and transport officers from around the country to assist in the border enforcement charade. President Bush is leading the amnesty bandwagon.

And inside Department of Homeland Security headquarters, it's color-coded cronyism as usual.