Senate Republicans have long criticized the Obama administration as lax on immigration enforcement, and their argument was bolstered by news this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is dismissing a record-high number of cases against immigrant detainees in Houston. In response, seven pro-enforcement Republican senators sent a letter More…
Correction: This post initially stated that the program in question was Secure Communities, which runs fingerprints obtained by local law enforcements through federal immigration databases. In fact, the program is 287(g), which allows local law enforcement to take on some immigration enforcement duties. The Los Angeles Times report did not More…
Apropos of my story today on municipalities that want to opt out of Secure Communities, the county manager for Arlington, Va., sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement yesterday requesting more information on how the community can remove itself from the fingerprint-sharing program, the Sun Gazette More…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported a record number of illegal immigrants in the 2010 fiscal year, removing 392,000 illegal immigrants from the country, according to figures released by the Department of Homeland Security today. That’s only 8,000 away from the 400,000 people ICE Chief John Morton More…
Plenty of politicians have accused the Obama administration of playing politics with immigration policy. But even within Immigration and Customs Enforcement, there’s a growing debate over whether ICE officials make decisions based on policy or politics, the Andrew Becker reported today in the Washington Post.
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As the government increases border security efforts along the U.S.-Mexico border, more immigrants are attempting to enter the U.S. by sea, the AP reported today. Sea routes can be perilous — the AP reported at least two known deaths by immigrants crossing into the U.S. this year — More…
Anti-immigration groups are accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement of trying to limit immigration enforcement, citing a draft policy memo ICE released this month. The memo has one major change to detention policy: it would prevent immigration officers from detaining illegal immigrants for traffic misdemeanors unless they More…
John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, makes the same general speech at all of his appearances: The Obama administration is serious about immigration enforcement and opposes amnesty. Illegal immigration is down. Enforcement efforts are working — and growing. Most recently, Morton unveiled More…
James M. Chaparro, director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Detention and Removal Operations, apparently implemented his own plan to increase the number of deportations of undocumented immigrants, The Washington Post reported Saturday. This announcement was made in a Feb. 22 memo to field More…
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary on Tuesday released a report on the immigrant detention system and announced plans to improve detention conditions for the approximately 30,000 immigrants being held on immigration violations.
The report finds that although many immigrants have not committed crimes, they’re held More…
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