A recently article by Albor Ruiz, of the New York Daily News, unfairly characterizes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as demonizing our society. It’s a shame that the media focus on the sensational without providing context and balance, including the steps agents take to ensure their safety as well as the community at large during any operation.
Absent an identity tool tied to E-Verify, employers have been left to serve as document detectives. Senator Schumer’s suggestion for a biometric employment card doesn’t sound all that different than enhanced security goals hoped to be achieved by Real ID. Regrettably this identity solution received a major blow in the past few weeks when the Administration announced that it was retreating from Real ID’s implementation.
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 […]
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 […]
British immigration officials in Pakistan ‘have 11 minutes per visa’ – Telegraph British immigration officials in Pakistan have just 11 minutes to check each visa application fuelling concerns over security, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Officials are also not checking supporting evidence in thousands of applications from that country and Afghanistan – two of the […]
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.
To say my trip to the UK was an eye and mind opening experience would be an understatement. Between attending two conferences and having the opportunity to meet with government, national security and public safety officials and private sector leaders as well as take in the amazing sights of London, you might say I had a bit of sensory overload – all in a positive sense. While there is no doubt about the ‘special relationship’ that exists between the UK and the US, I did leave London cognizant of how the same world can look very different from ‘across the pond.’
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