U.S. Chamber of Commerce – Finding the Balance: Shared Border of the Future Executive Summary Canada and the United States share a special relationship that is built on common values based on a long history of cooperation, family ties, and friendship. In addition to this strong friendship, our shared border facilitates the largest bilateral trading […]
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano says U.S. faces an eventful fall – MontereyHerald.com : Homeland Security Secretary Janet NaNapolitano warned federal judges and court officials Monday of the urgency of national immigration reform, “an increasing cascade” of cyber-terrorism attacks and a renewed flu pandemic that could severely strain government institutions this fall. Napolitano made her […]
ImmigrationProf Blog: Immigration Prosecutions Up in Early Days of Obama Administration: Enforcement Now, Enforcement Forever — Or Will We See Comprehensive Immigration Reform This Term? The Obama administration hopefully has a plan — much talked about but yet to be unveiled — about successfully moving comprehensive immigration reform through Congress. (Click here for one optimistic […]
Mexico must follow Colombia’s lead and not fold under the pressure of the wrath playing out on her streets today. Drug cartels, just like terrorist organizations, work very, very hard to destabilize governments around the globe. They rely on corruption, intimidation and violence, the hallmarks of organized crime, to create permissive environments where they can grow and thrive; areas where they can literally get away with mass murder.If Mexico loses the will to continue this fight, then life in Mexico and the United States will change as we know it.
Lamar Smith, Jim Sensenbrenner, Peter King and Darrell Issa – Pass ID Act Would Be a Real Threat to National Security – washingtonpost.com Despite the fact that a unanimous Senate — including then-Sen. Barack Obama — passed the Real ID Act, several senators recently introduced legislation known as the Pass ID Act, which promises to […]
Real lD vs. PASS ID turns on technology debate — Washington Technology States have complained about provisions of the Real ID law that require them to upgrade their driver’s license programs with new technology at their own expense. Real ID requires states to store data electronically and make it accessible to other states. Advocates of […]
Some very good news from DHS has lit up the border with a new sense of optimism. Secretary Napolitano has apparently tapped, Maria Louisa O’Connell as the new Assistant Commissioner of Public Affairs at CBP.
In a chance to turn the table on the media, a group from the private sector engaged in homeland security work were able to grill some top-notch beat reporters who cover homeland issues. One point of discussion that arose was that while DHS seems more low key and less visible than it was under the previous administration, many of the previous administration’s policies are being carried into the Obama era.
IG: Secure Border Initiative lacks effective oversight (7/10/09) — www.GovernmentExecutive.com Short staffed and under pressure to implement the Homeland Security Department’s high-profile program to improve border security known as the Secure Border Initiative, the Customs and Border Protection agency has made extensive use of contractor support services. So much so that contractors are doing inherently […]
By Edward Alden
Some have labeled the recommendations of the Independent Task Force on U.S. Immigration Policy as “amnesty.” It’s a rhetorically convenient but hollow charge. To label any proposal that envisions less than a complete removal of the current illegal immigrant population as “amnesty” offers no reasonable way forward.
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