Border Lines: The Criminal Alien Problem of Secure Communities The Secure Communities program represents furthering linking of the criminal justice and immigration systems. This merger of criminal and immigration law has been in process since the mid-1990s but has speeded up in the past several years with the deepening focus on criminal aliens by DHS […]
DHS is launching a significant change in its immigration worksite enforcement policies, and employers would be wise to understand how these changes could impact them. Here’s a primer on what you need to know.
Nextgov – Latest delay to E-Verify prompts doubts about program’s future “It is inexcusable that … the administration has delayed the requirement for federal contractors to use E-Verify,” said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., in a statement issued Wednesday. “Time after time we have heard congressional testimony supporting the credibility and importance of E-Verify, which is […]
Immigrant Daily » Blog Archive » Senator Patrick Leahy Offered Bill for Same Sex Immigration Benefits The frustrating ordeal of seeking legal residency for the same sex partners will soon be a thing of the past as Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Democrat from Vermont has offered a bill that would allow American citizens and […]
Ted Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations offers an excellent analysis of what’s wrong with our immigration process – or at least, one of the things that is wrong with our broken immigration process. In a nutshell, his is an argument – a desperate plea really – for a return to risk-based security procedures that use intelligence and information to prioritize threats rather than the hopelessly ineffective but increasingly popular notion on Capitol Hill that we can prevent 100 percent of all threats we may face.
In an interview with the Associated Press, former DEA Chief and DHS Border Security Undersecretary Asa Hutchinson notes the oddity of the Administration announcing a new push to take on the drug cartels and the smuggling of narcotics and guns along the Southwest Border while there still hasn’t even been nominations for the heads of key border security agencies — DEA, ATF and CBP.
Newsmax.com – Army Report: Drug Cartels, Terrorists Infiltrate U.S. A secret intelligence mission recently conducted along the southern border of the United States found that drug cartels are teaming with terrorists to exploit the numerous vulnerabilities along the sparsely defended 2,000-mile Mexican border.
Bush Rule Bolstering Deportations Is Withdrawn – NYTimes.com Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday reversed a Bush administration ruling that had weakened the ability of immigrants facing deportation to argue that their lawyers did a bad job. The original order, issued just days before the inauguration of President Obama, held that immigrants did […]
At a luncheon forum at the Aspen Institute this week, Secretary Napolitano outlined her priorities for DHS — focusing on improved intelligence, border security and emergency preparedness.
E-Verify on hold again as administration reviews rule — Washington Technology Contractors will remain exempt from the E-Verify rule until at least Sept. 8, a trade association said today. The Homeland Security Department is expected to delay the deadline again, from June 30, for mandatory contractor use of the E-Verify employment verification system, Jennifer Kerber, […]
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