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: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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 [...]
The Future of the Border, Part 1: The State of ICE
November 22, 2008 – 6:50 pm
Former ICE head Julie Myers. (Wikipedia photo) Since its creation in 2003 as part of the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has earned a reputation for controversy. It is perhaps best-known by the news-consuming public for the series of high-profile raids on employers, the most infamous of which was the Postville, Iowa [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 11/9
November 9, 2008 – 7:51 pm
Though the election dominated last week’s news and will likely dominate next week’s as well, other things have been happening in the world of immigration. Here are a few: The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement resigned without explanation, effective November 15. Julie L. Myers, who was appointed to the position in 2005, oversaw high-profile [...]
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 [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up 10/25
October 25, 2008 – 5:02 pm
A new Pew Hispanic Center report says that Latinos made up half of the nation’s growth since 2000. By 2007, they accounted for 15 percent of the population. USA Today takes a look at immigration in Arizona, where the issue is very much on the political radar. The collapse of the housing industry has led [...]
Supreme Court to Address Illegal Immigrant Identity Theft
October 20, 2008 – 6:14 pm
When I.C.E. arrests illegal immigrants, charges of identity theft usually follow. Often, the immigrants have bought fake social security numbers and identification, and sometimes those identities belong to real people. Under a 2004 law, this crime carries federal charges and a prison term of up to two years. But many illegal immigrants say they did [...]
Illegal Immigration Initiative Nets U.S. Citizens and Legal Immigrants
October 19, 2008 – 2:05 pm
Non-Somali workers protest special accommodations for Muslims in Grand Island, Ne. (Grand Island Independent, via AP) Like many local law enforcement offices around the country, the sheriff’s department in Outagamie County, Wisc., reports suspected illegal immigrants to I.C.E. through the Criminal Alien Program. But the Appleton Post Crescent reports that many of the people on [...]
More Than 300 Arrested in South Carolina Immigration Raid
October 9, 2008 – 8:55 am
A four-year-old waits for word of his mother, arrested in an ICE raid. (AP Photo) Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement continue after a sweep netted more than 1,100 suspected illegal immigrants in California last month. On Tuesday, another 300 were arrested in a raid on a poultry processing plant in Greenville, S.C. (video). In [...]
