The other day the News 21 blog looked at the future of the Department of Homeland Security, and I noted that President-elect Obama’s likely nominee to head it, Ariz. Gov. Janet Napolitano, is known in her home state as tough but moderate.
Writing in Slate today, former Arizona Republic reporter Tom Zoellner suggests the tough [...]
Tag Archives: homeland security
Slate Details Gov. Napolitano’s Links to ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff’
November 24, 2008 – 7:22 pm
The Future of the Border, Part 2: What Will Obama Do?
November 22, 2008 – 7:29 pm
Gov. Janet Napolitano, likely the next homeland security secretary. (Wikipedia photo)
Under a new, more liberal administration, ICE will presumably tone down the raids, and the website for the presidential transition says as much:
Immigration raids are ineffective: Despite a sevenfold increase in recent years, immigration raids only netted 3,600 arrests in 2006 and have placed [...]
Homeland Security to Crack Down Even Harder on Illegal Workers
October 26, 2008 – 6:29 pm
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, whose department includes Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced last week that the government would begin mailing “no match” letters to employers suspected of hiring illegal immigrants. These letters would notify employers that some of their employees were using Social Security numbers that did not match names in the Social [...]
Legal Woes for Border Wall
April 18, 2008 – 5:34 pm
In a front page column in the New York Times last week, Adam Liptak outlined a brewing legal battle against Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff’s use of sweeping new powers to expedite the construction of barriers along America’s southwestern borders.
But a legal challenge to the use of those powers is being heard at the [...]
