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 [...]
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Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 11/22
November 23, 2008 – 12:17 pm
A University of Massachusetts survey of Asian Americans found that 80 percent paid attention to immigration issues. 58 percent said they were sympathetic to Latinos’ position on immigration and 52 percent supported a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the Detroit Free Press, “I don’t expect much of a [...]
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 [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up 11/1
November 1, 2008 – 6:22 pm
GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin discussed a guest worker program with apple farmers in Pennsylvania on Friday. It was the first time she mentioned immigration at a campaign stop. Palin touted John McCain’s support of comprehensive immigration reform. The Feds are charging the former CEO of Agriprocessors, the company raided by ICE in one of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Weekly Immigration News Round-Up, 10/4
October 5, 2008 – 7:06 am
In California, more than 1,150 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested during a three-week sweep by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At the Huffington Post, Jeremy Goren tries to discern the presidential candidates’ stances on immigration. In Arizona, notorious Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced he had received more than 900 calls on his illegal immigration tip [...]
