Help set Homeland Security Priorities

The Department of Homeland Security hosting a Quadrennial Homeland Security Review and is asking for input. The second round runs August 31 through September 6th.

Click below to REGISTER and make your voice heard!

http://www.homelandsecuritydialogue.org/

This second dialogue is VERY IMPORTANT and promised to be more interactive.

DHS will produce a report based on the results of its review for submission to Congress on December 31, 2009.

DHS: August 19, 2009 - -- by DHS

IDEAS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY:

(1) Require ALL workers to pass through E-Verify to open up jobs for American workers and legal immigrants.

DHS' current E-Verify rule only requires employees hired specifically for federal contract jobs to pass through E-Verify. But existing employees can be transferred onto the federal contracting job without passing through E-Verify. Employers can move illegal workers onto federal contract jobs by taking advantage of this loophole.

(2) Expand 287(g) (not MODIFY 287(g)) to reduce illegal immigration in state and local communities.

The 287(g) program was designed to crackdown on criminal illegal aliens by making it harder for all illegal aliens to remain undetected within the interior.

Mohammed Atta, received a traffic ticket in Broward County, Florida, for driving without a license. He had, by this time, overstayed his visa on his previous visit to the United States between June of 2000 and January of 2001. Under the original 287(g) plan, Atta would have been reported to ICE. Under DHS' new rules, however, he would have been allowed to continue because he did not have a "criminal" record.