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April 10, 2013: Activists rally for immigration reform in Los Angeles.APWhile 
the authors of the newly released Senate immigration bill touted its multibillion 
dollar investment in border security, critics are seizing on what they describe 
as a major loophole -- giving the government "discretion" to choose when 
to enforce immigration laws.The union representing Immigration and Customs 
Enforcement agents has long complained that the Obama administration has 
made their job harder by preventing agents from detaining and deporting 
select illegal immigrants. They had petitioned members of the so-called 
"Gang of Eight" -- the lawmakers writing the immigration bill -- to 
address those concerns in the package.But, in a letter obtained by FoxNews.com, 
National ICE Council President Chris Crane said "this legislation again 
does nothing to resolve that."The letter was sent Tuesday to Sen. Marco 
Rubio, R-Fla., a key member of the Gang of Eight, shortly before 
the legislation was formally released. Crane thanked Rubio for meeting with 
him, a meeting he had long sought, but complained that the bill 
did not address his concerns."In fact, it appears that the security components 
it does contain focus mostly on the exterior, and rely on the 
discretion of DHS, even though DHS is in federal court right now 
for undermining the constitutional rule of law," Crane wrote, referring 
to a lawsuit brought by ICE agents.The proposal, as emphasized by its 
co-authors
rmation about lost and stolen guns and establishing emergency plans 
for schools. Those measures were among the 23 executive actions the president 
signed in January when he announced his broader push for tighter gun 
laws in response to a mass shooting of first-graders and staff at 
Newtown, Conn.'s Sandy Hook Elementary School.The Health and Human Services 
Department on Friday was beginning to ask for public comment on how 
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, passed by Congress 
in 1996 and known as HIPAA, is preventing some states from reporting 
to the background check system and how to address the problem. Under 
HIPAA, health care providers such as hospitals may release limited information 
to police, but only in certain circumstances such as when a court 
is involved.Since 1968, federal law has banned the sale of guns to 
those who have been deemed a danger to themselves or others, involuntarily 
committed or judged not guilty by reason of insanity or incompetent to 
stand trial. The background check system -- which is also used to 
prevent convicted felons from buying guns -- was established under the 1993 
Brady Bill.A few state agencies shared mental health records voluntarily 
for years, but the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 spurred passage of 
legislation that required states to submit the records or eventually risk 
losing up to 5 percent of the federal funding they receive to 
fight crime.Last year's review by the Gover

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