Obama addresses immigration reform – Josh Gerstein – POLITICO.com President Barack Obama on Thursday managed to undo some of the damage he did recently with immigrants’ rights advocates — who were angered when Obama said in Mexico that immigrationreform would have to wait until after health care and energy bills passed Congress. Obama dropped in […]
Mexico purges customs officers for border corruption | World news | The Guardian More than 700 customs officers at airports and land crossings have been replaced in Mexico in a crackdown on corrupt agents who allow drugs and weapons to flow across the country’s borders, a spokesman for the customs service said yesterday.. Reforma newspaper […]
Trade Policy Analysis no. 40: Restriction or Legalization? Measuring the Economic Benefits of Immigration Reform | Cato’s Center for Trade Policy Studies By the latest estimates, 8.3 million workers in the United States are illegal immigrants. Proposed policy responses range from more restrictive border and workplace enforcement to legalization of workers who are already here […]
ImmigrationProf Blog: White House to host immigration meeting AP reports that the White House is hosting an immigration discussion on Thursday with advocates, religious groups, businesses and law enforcement. U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will lead the discussion, according to an anonymous source. She has been holding similar meetings across the country […]
The Politico logs a headline that reads: “President Obama: Immigration bill coming this year.” On the same morning, CQ Homeland Security asserts: “Obama Says Immigration Overhaul Will Slide to 2010.”
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U.S. to Reform Policy on Detention for Immigrants – NYTimes.com The Obama administration intends to announce an ambitious plan on Thursday to overhaul the much-criticized way the nation detains immigration violators, trying to transform it from a patchwork of jail and prison cells to what its new chief called a “truly civil detention system.”
Shortages free detained ‘criminal’ immigrants | Immigration | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle U.S. immigration officials have released from federal custody hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants accused or convicted of crimes, including homicide and sexual assault, because of a lack of space and funds, according to internal records. The data, obtained by the Houston Chronicle through […]
IG, Immigration disagree on transformation steps — Federal Computer Week U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is making progress in its four-year-old transformation program to remake the paperwork-centered agency into a modern information technology environment, although a few problems continue to hamper its efforts, according to a report from Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner. Skinner […]
Appetite grows for mandatory worker verification – Washington Business Journal: Washington Bureau Momentum appears to be growing for legislation that would require all employers, not just federal contractors, to use the E-Verify system to confirm that their employees are eligible to work in the U.S.
As Congress has been unusually busy on a range of fronts – health care, executive compensation, climate change, even “cash for clunkers” – one front that has been unusually quiet has been the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.
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