Cubans attempting to enter the U.S. illegally are uniquely handled under an immigration law descriptively known as “wet foot/dry foot”. But a new and equally dangerous trend has emerged in the past several years that brings Cubans to the U.S. soil through dangerous Mexico.
New Study Shows Impact of 2006 Swift Raids | Homeland Security Digital Library Weblog The Center for Immigration Studies has released a new backgrounder on the December 2006 Swift Raids. During the raids, the largest immigration enforcement actions in U.S. history, approximately 1300 illegal immigrates were arrested. This backgrounder examines the aftermath of the raids. […]
CQ Homeland Security follows up on Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling ICE agents “un-American” for doing worksite enforcement operations.
Several days ago, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) spoke at a town hall-type meeting at St. Anthony’s Church in San Francisco, CA. In addressing the assembled crowd, which news coverage described as being filled with both legal and illegal immigrants, the Speaker described the raids that have been conducted on homes and businesses where illegal-immigrants are located as “un-American.” I always thought the answer to that question was the ‘rule of law’ but apparently if I agree with enforcing existing laws, I am, in the words of Speaker Pelosi, “un-American.”
Fox News reports that immigration agents are no longer aggressively implementing worksite enforcement operations, as DHS spokesperson notes that the Department is focused on deporting criminal aliens:
ICE agents are … un-American Nazis who like to terrorize our communities. According to our Members of Congress, anyway. If there were any sincerity to such hysterical campaign trail talk, one might ask why Congress doesn’t disband US Immigration and Customs Enforcement? Probably because if they did so, they’d lose their favorite scapegoat for their own failure to pass workable immigration law.
Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere Seventy-three percent (73%) of U.S. voters believe that a police officer should automatically check to see if someone is in this country legally when the officer pulls that person over for a traffic violation. Only 21% disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Last week, Security Debrief contributor and former Chief of Operations at the DEA, Michael Braun, testified in front of the House Subcommittee on National Security & Foreign Affairs Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding “Guns, Drugs and Violence.” Today, Braun continued his testimony, this time speaking on the Merida Initiative and the current enviornment along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Last week, Security Debrief Contributor and former Chief of Operations at the Drug Enforcement Agency, Michael Braun, testified in front of the House Subcommittee on National Security & Foreign Affairs Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding the recent rise in violence and terror along the U.S.-Mexican border.
The roller-coaster of immigration enforcement continues as immigration rights activists rally around the DHS response to the recent ICE worksite enforcement operation in Bellingham, Washington. The worksite enforcement investigation resulted in the arrest of 28 illegal aliens at an engine manufacturing plant. Worksite enforcement operations of this nature were routine and of high priority under the Bush administration.
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