Analyst's note:  Illegals now have a publicly funded lobbyist within the agency that's charged with bringing them to justice. ...

Immigration law enforcement suffered another blow when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced the appointment of Andrew Lorenz-Strait as the nation’s first “public advocate” for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).

According to ICE Director John Morton, the public advocate position was created by the Obama administration to handle questions and complaints by illegal aliens over the various changes the DHS has made in the past year concerning the way immigration authorities determine which undocumented immigrants are deported.

As such, Morton said Lorenz-Strait “will work to expand and enhance our dialogue with the stakeholder community. We want the public to know that they have a representative at this agency whose sole duty is to ensure their voice is heard and their interests are recognized.”

Despite the fact that this “stakeholder community” willingly failed to obey US immigration laws in order to enter the country, the federal agency charged with enforcing immigration laws has now seen fit to give them their own taxpayer-funded lobbyist.

This irony wasn’t lost on Shawn Moran, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), when he asked, “What is next? Will drug dealers band together decrying their prosecutions in one voice?”

[....] In the President’s State of the Union address, Obama made veiled references to resuscitating the DREAM Act, when he said, “Hundreds of thousands of talented, hardworking students in this country face another challenge: the fact that they aren’t yet American citizens… Send me a law that gives them the chance to earn their citizenship. I will sign it right away.”

The President’s 2013 budget proposal includes a $170 million cut to the budget of the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), a program that helps states cover jail costs for illegal immigrants.

Finally, a recent Inspector General report found that Obama administration officials at USCIS have pressured staff to speed up and approve immigrant visa applications, even when fraud is suspected. Moreover, the report found more than fifty percent of the USCIS’s 254 immigration service officers to believe that USCIS policy is “too heavily weighted toward promotion of immigration rather than national security.”

Unfortunately, that belief is more than shared by state lawmakers who have been dealing with an administration that refuses to enforce immigration laws but rather sues states that do. In fact, it has gotten so bad in Arizona — which has faced multiple armed incursions by paramilitary drug cartels — that Arizona lawmakers are considering funding a volunteer armed state guard to help with border enforcement.

Of course, they may first want to check with ICE’s illegal alien public advocate to see how his “stakeholder community” feels about such a move.