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Top ICE Official Defends Ariz. Immigration Sweeps
Saturday, January 23 @ 02:01:20 EST by jean (474 reads) |  Amid a Justice Department racial profiling investigation and colossal protests by Latino rights advocates, a top Obama immigration official is defending an Arizona program that once allowed a county sheriff to arrest illegal aliens.
The immigration sweeps, conducted by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department, have apprehended dozens of illegal immigrants with criminal records and vastly improved the sprawling Phoenix metropolitan area by restoring law and order in a large business district rife with solicitation, trespassing, loitering and public health ordinance violations created by day laborers.
Topics = Illegal Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 287(g), Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton, DHS
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TB-Infected Man On TSA List Slips Onto Flight
Wednesday, January 13 @ 01:30:14 EST by jean (512 reads) | Once again highlighting how dangerously incompetent the nation's airline security system is, a passenger with tuberculosis took a 2,600-mile flight on a commercial plane even though his name appeared on a Homeland Security “do-not-board” list.
Topics = Illegal Immigration, DHS, TSA, violated security system, passengers exposed, CDC, security failures, terrorism
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Is Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano on the ropes?
Wednesday, January 06 @ 01:21:58 EST by jean (357 reads) | The head of a grassroots immigration reform organization is calling for the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in the wake of the attempted hijacking of a U.S. airliner Christmas Day.
Janet Napolitano (Dept. of Homeland Security)The Obama administration is now promising a sweeping review of aviation security after a Nigerian man on the terrorist watch list attempted to blow up a trans-Atlantic Northwest Airlines flight as it made its descent into Detroit on Christmas Day.
Topics: Department of Homeland Security, Napolitano, Obama administration, William Gheen, ALIPAC, terrorists
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DHS Plans to Catch Only One in Four Travelers Committing 'Major' Crime
Tuesday, January 05 @ 14:05:57 EST by williamg (372 reads) | Documents produced by the
Department of Homeland Security indicate that in fiscal 2010 the
department is planning to catch only 26 percent of travelers committing
major criminal violations while seeking to enter the United States
through international airports.
DHS documents also indicate that the department believes it will
fail to screen against law enforcement databases 15 percent of
travelers entering the United States in 2010 through all official ports
of entry.
In fiscal 2008, according to DHS, the department caught only 25
percent of those committing “major violations” while entering the U.S.
on international flights. It also planned to catch only 25% in fiscal
2009, which ended on Sept. 30. For fiscal 2010, which began on Oct. 1,
DHS set it sites slightly higher, planning to catch 26 percent of
“major” violators entering the U.S. on international flights while
letting 74 percent get away.
Subjects: illegal immigration, border, security, terrorist, port of entry, check points, customs, travel, airplane, flights
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11 indicted in OH marriage fraud to avoid immigration laws
Wednesday, December 09 @ 01:16:24 EST by jean (555 reads) | Individuals entered into sham marriages to gain citizenship
COLUMBUS, Ohio - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and local officers in the metro-Columbus area arrested nine people charged with participating in a central Ohio based scheme to arrange sham marriages in order to evade U.S. immigration laws. Two additional arrests were made in New Orleans and Philadelphia. Two defendants remain at large. All 11 people were named Dec. 8 in federal indictments unsealed in federal district court.
Subjects = Illegal immigration, marriage fraud, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, evade immigration laws, DHS
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Immigration Officials to Audit 1,000 More Companies
Friday, November 20 @ 02:04:49 EST by jean (594 reads) | WASHINGTON — Immigration enforcement officials said Thursday that they were expanding a program for auditing companies that might have hired illegal immigrants and had notified 1,000 companies this week that they would have to undergo such a review.
John Morton, who heads Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, announced the new initiative, saying it was part of the administration’s plan to deal with companies that hire illegal workers. “ICE is focused on finding and penalizing employers who believe they can unfairly get ahead by cultivating illegal workplaces,” Mr. Morton said.
Topics = Illegal Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Obama administration, audit employers, Napolitano, E-Verify
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Napolitano: Legal status for illegals will help national security, labor unions
Saturday, November 14 @ 02:29:32 EST by jean (622 reads) | U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that providing some kind of legal citizenship pathway and status to illegal immigrants -- which critics say is amnesty -- is key to U.S. national security.
“We will never have fully effective law enforcement or national security as long as so many millions remain in the shadows,” Napolitano said in a speech Friday to the liberal advocacy group Center for American Progress.
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Napolitano, Obama Administration, amnesty, labor unions, immigration reform, American workers
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Napolitano forecasts immigration overhaul in 2010
Friday, November 13 @ 21:43:38 EST by jean (600 reads) | The Obama administration expects Congress to begin moving to overhaul the nation's immigration laws early next year, while improved border security and a drop in migration caused by the economic downturn make passage "far more attainable" than in 2007, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.
"When Congress is ready to act, we will be ready to support them," said Napolitano, President Obama's "point-person" on immigration policy issues. "The first part of 2010, we will see legislation beginning to move," she said.
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Obama administration, amnesty, Napolitano, Congress, umemployment, immigration reform
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Sheriff Arpaio's Office Is Only Law Enforcement Agency Denied Authority...
Saturday, October 24 @ 02:58:20 EDT by alipac (772 reads) | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told CNSNews.com that after reviewing the Memorandum of Agreements between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and state and local law enforcement agencies in 23 states, the only agency to lose its authority under the 287(g) program to operate task forces that can enforce federal immigration laws is the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
“It’s the only one,” Matt Chandler, spokesman for the DHS, said on Thursday.
Topics: Illegal Immigration, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, DHS, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Napolitano, 287(g), Kris Kobach
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More than 300 arrested in two-day nationwide takedown
Friday, October 23 @ 03:03:11 EDT by alipac (791 reads) | "Project Coronado" results in nearly 1,200 arrests during 44-month operation,seizures of more than 11.7 tons of drugs and $32.8 million in US currency
WASHINGTON - The arrest of nearly 1,200 individuals on narcotics-related charges and the seizure of more than 11.7 tons of narcotics was announced as part of "Project Coronado," a 44-month multi-agency law enforcement operation, which included U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Topics: U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Project Coronado, Mexican drug trafficking, La Familia Cartel, DEA, FBI
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DHS Reshapes Its Immigration Enforcement Program
Friday, October 16 @ 02:51:02 EDT by alipac (837 reads) | A controversial federal program that deputizes state and local law enforcement agents to catch illegal immigrants is expanding under the Obama administration, despite changes announced this summer intended to curb alleged racial profiling and other police abuses.
The Department of Homeland Security is expected to report Friday morning that a small number of the 66 participating agencies have dropped out because of the new federal requirements, officials said. And those losses are offset by applications from 13 additional police and sheriff's departments, a federal official said, speaking on condition of anonymity before the formal announcement.
Subjects: Illegal Immigration, Department of Homeland Security, Obama administration, deportations, Napolitano, Sheriff Arpaio
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U.S. Can't Trace Foreign Visitors on Expired Visas
Monday, October 12 @ 12:28:40 EDT by alipac (848 reads) | DALLAS — Eight years after the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the
United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign
visitors have left the country.
New concern was focused on that security loophole last week, when
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a 19-year-old Jordanian who had overstayed
his tourist visa, was accused in court of plotting to blow up a Dallas
skyscraper.
Last year alone, 2.9 million foreign visitors on temporary visas
like Mr. Smadi’s checked in to the country but never officially checked
out, immigration officials said. While officials say they have no way
to confirm it, they suspect that several hundred thousand of them
overstayed their visas.
Topics: illegal immigration, terrorist, visas, illegal immigrants, students, guest workers, illegal aliens, DHS, security, Lamar Smith
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DHS - Hotels, other sites may house detained immigrants
Tuesday, October 06 @ 16:41:51 EDT by alipac (671 reads) | WASHINGTON — Former hotels, nursing homes and
other sites would be used to hold immigrants who are not criminals or
violent as part of a larger plan to reform immigration detention
proposed by the homeland security secretary, according to documents
obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
Janet Napolitano is proposing that illegal immigrants awaiting
deportation be confined according to the risk they may pose and will
detail her plan on Tuesday. The reforms were previewed by the agency in
August without as much detail.
Topics: illegal immigration, illegal immigrants, aliens, deportation, enforcement, DHS, Napolitano, detention, detainment, arrests
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Hispanic Caucus Calls for Ending Program That Identified 100,000 Illegal Aliens
Saturday, October 03 @ 02:37:43 EDT by alipac (716 reads) | The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has asked the Obama administration to “immediately terminate” a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program that has identified more than 120,000 illegal aliens over the past three years..
“On behalf of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), we write to ask that you immediately terminate all Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) under the 287(g) program and cease to establish such agreements,” reads the letter to President Obama.
Subjects = Illegal Immigration, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, 287(g), DHS, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, Rep. Steve King
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Task force advises limiting federal immigration arrest program
Friday, October 02 @ 02:55:21 EDT by alipac (629 reads) | A U.S. government task force recommended Wednesday that the federal Department of Homeland Security scale back an initiative that allows local authorities to enforce the country’s immigration law.
The so-called 287(g) program — named after the section of law that created it — should be limited to identifying illegal immigrants in state prisons and county jails and exclude any efforts to track them down outside of criminal investigations, the Southwest Border Task Force said.
Topics: Illegal Immigration, 287(g), Department of Homeland Security, government task force, spillover violence, Border Patrol
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| Old Articles | | Monday, September 21 | | · | UT - DHS ICE refuses to cross-deputize Davis County deputies Law enforcement |
| Thursday, September 17 | | · | Under fire, Napolitano halts border projects for review |
| Thursday, August 13 | | · | Town Hall Meetings and Right Wing Extremists |
| Wednesday, August 12 | | · | ALG Blasts DHS Methodology Used in Rightwing Extremism Memo |
| · | DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announces $30 million for border security |
| Wednesday, July 08 | | · | Krispy Kreme fined after I-9 audit |
| Wednesday, June 24 | | · | Homeland Security chief: We will enforce immigration laws |
| Wednesday, June 17 | | · | Supreme Court rules in favor of U.S.-Mexico border fence |
| Saturday, May 30 | | · | NANCY PELOSI, JANET NAPOLITANO & CHUCK SHUMER PROTECT ILLEGALS |
| Wednesday, May 20 | | · | Janet Napolitano: Legalization a hard sell |
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