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Question of the Week -- Is James Schwab a Whistleblower?

Posted  March 14, 2018

By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team

James Schwab, a former Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, recently resigned from his post saying he didn’t agree with federal officials’ use of “misleading facts” relating to a recent Northern California immigrant sweep.  In that four-day operation, ICE officers arrested 232 people — but federal officials blamed Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for 864 more people not being arrested. They pointed to her public warning of a pending raid.

President Trump called what Schaaf did “a disgrace,” saying her warning was the sole reason that hundreds of people escaped arrest. His remarks amplified attacks by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and acting ICE Director Thomas Homan. However, at least one official said it’s common for a large-scale immigration sweep to net about a third of its targets.

“We were never going to pick up that many people. To say that 100 percent are dangerous criminals on the street, or that those people weren’t picked up because of the misguided actions of the mayor, is just wrong.” Schwab told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I’ve never been in this situation in 16, almost 17 years in government where someone asked me to deflect when we absolutely knew something was awry — when the data was not correct.”

What do you think? Is James Schwab a whistleblower?

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2 Replies to Question of the Week — Is James Schwab a Whistleblower?

  • Steven Vanwormer says:

    “Whistle blowers” report other people that are breaking the law. You may disagree with the numbers but the Trump administration was following the existing immigration law. Don’t like the law? Get it legally changed. Break the law, pay the penalty no matter who you are! What Schaff did was much more than a disgrace. She assumed that the criminals she “tipped off” would run and hide. When in fact she had no idea how they would respond. They might just as easily set up ambushes for Federal officers that scenario is all too common these days. Schaff is no better than a drug “lookout” and should be prosecuted as such. Meanwhile, if she doesn’t like ICE deporting families they encounter in the course of their work maybe her policy shouldn’t be to force ICE officers to pick illegal alien criminals up at their homes. She could accomplish that by handing over criminals for deportation while they are still in custody. But if ICE has to go into the community looking for them, it is completely appropriate for them to arrest and deport every violator they encounter!

  • Lynn Grubbs says:

    He is an idiot. How does he know the facts are incorrect.

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