Category Archive: Department of Homeland Security
Not surprisingly, the issue of border security is emerging as the biggest stumbling block to passage of the immigration reform bill now moving through the Senate. Conservative opponents of reform are refusing to support any measure that would grant legal status to unauthorized immigrants already in the country without first achieving that most nebulous of …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/06/03/congressional-opponents-of-immigration-reform-demand-endless-increases-in-border-security/
On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee began its mark-up of Title III of S.744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act. When the mark-up continues on Monday, Senators are likely to vote on amendments addressing immigration courts. These amendments will be crucial in determining whether the full Senate receives a bill that provides …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/05/17/will-due-process-protections-be-preserved-in-senate-mark-up/
At an April 23rd hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered two messages on behalf of the Obama administration. First, the administration strongly supports the Senate immigration reform bill—S.744, “The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.” Secondly, the administration has, contrary to the claims of its critics, significantly …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/24/napolitano-hearing-points-the-way-forward-on-immigration-reform/
Ahead of the expected release of a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the Senate this week, details were released outlining the broad strokes of the bill. The “Gang of Eight”—a bipartisan group of senators who have been working to develop the proposal—delayed a press conference that had been planned for today about the bill out …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/04/16/details-begin-to-emerge-on-new-immigration-bill/
Since the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in 2003, its immigration-enforcement agencies—Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—have been officially devoted to the protection of U.S. national security and the prevention of terrorist attacks. However, the bulk of the work done by CBP and ICE on a day-to-day basis …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/28/u-s-border-enforcement-programs-target-immigrants-who-arent-a-threat-to-anyone/
Every day, out of more than 30,000 detainees, roughly 300 immigrants are held in solitary confinement at the nation’s 50 largest detention centers overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, according to federal data. Solitary confinement is one of most expensive forms of detention, the New York Times reports, and nearly half of immigrant …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/25/hundreds-of-detained-immigrants-held-in-solitary-confinement/
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Administration, Congress, Courts, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detention, Enforcement, Hearings, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, President Obama, Undocumented Immigration
by Amanda Peterson Beadle
March 15, 2013
Along with every other government agency, on March 1, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials had to begin making mandatory cuts to their budget as a result of sequestration. ICE’s choice to shift some of its detainees from expensive detention facilities to non-detention alternatives was questioned yesterday by Members of Congress, but more importantly …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/15/budget-cuts-led-ice-to-release-immigrants-from-detention/
While the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration officers have broad authority to detain and ultimately deport noncitizens, they are generally not authorized to detain U.S. citizens and certainly cannot deport them. Yet, that is essentially what happened to a four-year-old U.S. citizen. In March 2011, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a component of …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/03/13/groups-file-legal-claims-against-border-patrol-in-abuse-cases/
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Administration, Backlogs, Board of Immigration Appeals, Courts, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detention, Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration Law, President Obama, Progressives, Reform, Republicans, Secretary Napolitano
by Amanda Peterson Beadle
February 26, 2013
The U.S.’s immigration system, already burdened by application processing backlogs and insufficient funding for immigration courts, could become even more unwieldy if the government must slash its budget on March 1. Sequestration – a package of across-the-board government spending cuts totaling $85 billion this year and $1.2 trillion over the next decade – likely will …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/26/sequestration/
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Access to Counsel, Board of Immigration Appeals, Border, Courts, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration Law, Undocumented Immigration, USCIS
by Beth Werlin
February 15, 2013
The Obama Administration is on record for pursuing the toughest immigration enforcement policies in U.S. history, mostly evidenced by its record numbers of deportations. These numbers speak volumes: last year, nearly 400,000 people were deported from the United States. While these numbers are shockingly high and there has been much discussion about how these actions …
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Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/15/shoddy-court-process-behind-the-record-number-of-deportations/