Secure Communities task force to Homeland Security: Stop Secure Communities

Homeland Security severs immigration-enforcement ties with Arizona sheriff

Napolitano defends Secure Communities immigration strategy

Steve King wants congressional hearings on Obama’s ‘drunken Uncle Omar’

Last month, Onyango Obama, half-brother to the President Obama’s father, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving and then held by authorities due to an outstanding deportation last month.

Republican lawmakers, conservatives use arrest of Obama’s uncle to attack deportation reform

Onyango Obama, half-brother to President Barack Obama’s father, was arrested last week in Massachusetts on suspicion of drunken driving. He is now being held without bail by federal immigration officials because, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), he had a prior deportation order at the time of his More…

Obama to reduce deportations, issue work permits to some undocumented

Many undocumented immigrants without criminal records who are up for deportation will be allowed to indefinitely stay in the United States and apply for work permits, said U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday.

First DREAM Act U.S. Senate hearing pits supporters against opponents

A few minutes into the the first ever Senate hearing on the DREAM Act, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., chairman of the subcommittee holding the meeting, had to tell supporters to not applaud any comments. #

The DREAM Act — reintroduced this year by More…

Is DHS’s ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ campaign helpful or burdensome?

The message “If you see something, say something,” will be plastered on television and posters throughout the Staples Center this weekend at the NBA All-Star game as part of a recent partnership announced Tuesday between the National Basketball Association and the Department of Homeland Security. Officials said the campaign partnership More…

Will a Republican House mean beefed-up immigration enforcement and more deportations?

With the GOP set to take over the House in January, I’ve been trying to pinpoint some immigration proposals — if any exist — that House Republicans, Senate Democrats and President Obama might agree on. Beyond mandating E-Verify and banning “sanctuary cities,” the next session might More…

Immigration agency confirms fingerprint-sharing program is mandatory

Immigration and Customs Enforcement official David Venturella started off a meeting with San Francisco law enforcement leaders on Tuesday with an apology. ICE, he admitted, had given conflicting information about Secure Communities, a program that shares fingerprints taken for criminal background checks with federal immigration enforcement, and whether counties like More…