The federal immigration program that allows local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws is becoming a thorn in the side of the Obama administration.
It’s part of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s tough-on-illegal immigrants strategy, and it wins President Obama points from conservatives who fear More…
A comprehensive immigration reform bill might be drafted by the end of this year, but President Obama said in Mexico today that he would not expect anything to pass until 2010, according to The Hill.
Immigration reform has never been at the top of the president’s More…
Even as the numbers of illegal immigrants entering the United States plunges and the Obama administration steps up enforcement of the immigration laws, comprehensive immigration reform that would provide a path to legalization for some undocumented immigrants already living here is in peril.
As University of California-Davis More…
When President Obama made unexpected comments about the long history of racial profiling by police in this country at his press conference last night, it was a surprise to many observers who’ve seen the President position himself as a “post-racial” political figure.
But it was also a surprise to More…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio has made a name for himself using controversial tactics targeting illegal immigrants in Arizona. The chief law enforcement officer of Maricopa County and author of the book “America’s Toughest Sheriff,” Arpaio boasts that he’s arrested some 30,000 undocumented immigrants, many More…
New Department of Homeland Security agreements governing state and local police departments’ enforcement of immigration laws are not relieving their critics’ concerns.
Known as 287(g) authority because of the section of the immigration law that authorizes it, this delegation of federal law enforcement power to local police has sparked More…
The continued expansion of the so-called “Secure Communities” program, which sends the fingerprints of suspects booked at local jails to the federal immigration authorities to check immigration status, could have troubling consequences, immigration advocates say.
The Washington Post’s story today on the program, started last year by the Bush administration, More…
Now I get it: after all those reports lately about how local law enforcement is increasingly relying on its powers under the federal 287(g) program to arrest and detain undocumented immigrants who haven’t actually committed crimes, we learn from The Los Angeles Times today that the federal More…
Federal authorities told Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Tuesday that they will investigate his department over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures — a claim his critics have been making for years.
According to The Associated Press, The Justice Department wrote in a letter that More…
There may be nothing more disturbing than accidentally running into a broadcast of Lou Dobbs Tonight on CNN. But there I was at the gym last night, captive to Dobbs ranting about the 300,000 illegal aliens who were supposedly going to be stealing American jobs. (I wrote earlier about More…
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