House Appropriations Hurts Immigration Enforcement
by James R. Edwards, Jr. (more by this author)
Posted 07/14/2008 ET

New congressional restrictions on immigration enforcement should worry Americans about the direction of immigration policy after this year’s election.

The Democratic majority on the House Appropriations Committee, led by North Carolina liberal David Price, put handcuffs on the popular 287(g) program. The FY 2009 Homeland Security Appropriations bill shuts off nearly all enrollment of state and local police departments in this program.

The bill, as passed by the House Appropriations Committee, prohibits Homeland Security from “enter[ing] into any agreement delegating law enforcement to any state or political subdivision of a state as authorized under such section 287(g), other than at a jail, prison, or correctional institution . . . .â€