Obama's Homeland Security Hobbles Local Immigration Enforcement
by James R. Edwards, Jr.

11/05/2009


The Obama operatives at the Department of Homeland Security have pared back one of the most successful immigration-enforcement programs, known as 287(g).

DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has stripped the state and local law enforcement agencies in the popular program of the flexibility to design a customized, collaborative arrangement with immigration authorities.

The changes recently implemented force state and local police into a Washington-dictated, one-size-fits-all model. And these changes fly in the face of Congress’s original intent for the 287(g) program. There was never any requirement that 287(g) cases involve only actions against “seriousâ€