Thanks to an inside administrator fight within Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Arizona are backing off immigration busts because they don't have anywhere to put the illegal border crossers when they find them, sources say.

The Detention and Removal Office, the Homeland Security office responsible for housing and deporting illegal border crossers, is refusing to house any of the illegal crossers captured by ICE in Arizona and that administrative pissing match is starting to take its toll on ICE agents in this state, said an ICE official in Tucson.

ICE is the Homeland Security agency responsible for enforcing immigration laws in the interior of the country. Frequently, that consists of popping stash houses in Phoenix and Tucson and criminal alien investigations - people here illegally who are gangmembers, illegal crossers carrying arrest warrants on their heads, that kind of case.

"The shake-up is incredible," the source said. "They essentially told ICE, 'we're not taking any aliens from you.' We're having to drop major investigations because we don't have anywhere to put the aliens," the source said.

The Border Patrol also declined to take any illegal crossers arrested by ICE agents, so ICE can't turn to them for help either.

"The only option we have is Maricopa County but that's not politically palatable these days," the source said.

I understand that the ICE Special Agent in Charge of Arizona Alonzo Peña is in discussions with Washington D.C. to determine what can be done about all this.

So, assuming my information is good, if you're an MS-13 gangmember in Tucson, now's a real good time to make a break for Los Angeles. And good riddance.