Topic: Halloween News - Report Blasts Immigration Halloween Party - ABC News
The Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee offered a scathing report Tuesday on the now-infamous Halloween party at Immigration and Customs Enforcement last fall that stirred controversy over race issues at the agency. Democrats on the panel urged the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a full investigation into the alleged coverup, and said an independent official should be tasked with evaluating the situation to determine which, if any, laws were violated. According to the report, when the male employee walked up to the judges’ table, where Myers sat, “he stated, ‘I’m a Jamaican detainee from [Miami detention facility] Krome, obviously, I’ve escaped. She also issued a public apology for the incident, and the employee who wore the costume was reassigned from headquarters to a field office one week after the party. A CNN freedom of information request sought to have the agency produce the photos, and technical staff at ICE were able to recover them from the digital media from which they had been deleted. If you would like to tell us more facts about this story, please click here to send the editors of ABC News a separate email with the information you have. More Halloween News