Anti-immigrant groups like the “Minutemen” vigilantes are not only proliferating, but are rapidly beginning to resemble the white-supremacist and anti-government militias that have populated the netherworld of the Radical Right since the early 1990s. Adding insult to injury, the farcical conspiracy theories that circulate among both extreme nativist groups and right-wing militias are now being …
Category Archive: Raids
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Aug
11
Quadrennial Homeland Security Review: Is DHS Asking the Right Questions?
If you go to the National Dialogue on the Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR) website and click through to the Smart and Tough Enforcement of Immigration Laws section, you will find a bit of surprise. Despite a title that panders to the enforcement first crowd, implying that immigration policy is all about being “tough,” there …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/08/11/quadrennial-homeland-security-review-is-dhs-asking-the-right-questions/
Aug
07
What’s Law Got To Do With It? Sheriff Arpaio Defies New DHS Enforcement Guidelines
Photo by swirlingthoughts. The Department of Homeland Security recently standardized its 287(g) immigration enforcement agreements with local law enforcement, which allows specially trained local enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws. Among the new DHS rules, local law enforcement must now prioritize immigrants with serious criminal records, rather than spend scant time and resources going …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/08/07/what%e2%80%99s-law-got-to-do-with-it-sheriff-arpaio-defies-new-dhs-enforcement-guidelines/
Jul
27
Kicking Down Doors, Stomping on Rights: New Report Reveals Disturbing Details of ICE Raids
Photo by Richard Vallejo. Last week the Immigration Justice Clinic of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York published a disturbing study that documents ICE’s home raid operations. Constitution on ICE: A Report on Immigration Home Raid Operations found that over the last several years, ICE has increasingly conducted …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/07/27/kicking-in-doors-stomping-on-rights-new-report-reveals-disturbing-details-of-ice-raids/
Jul
22
New Yorker Profile of Joe Arpaio is Not a Pretty Picture
Photo by TheRagBlog. The July 20th issue of The New Yorker paints a detailed portrait of Maricopa County, Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio—and it is not a pretty picture. The profile of “Sheriff Joe” that emerges from the story by journalist William Finnegan is that of a man obsessed with publicity and self-promotion, who has a …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/07/22/new-yorker-profile-of-joe-arpaio-is-not-a-pretty-picture/
Jul
16
CIS Proposes Unique Approach to Union Organizing
Photo by *0ne*. What’s the best way to help workers form a union in a workplace where managers have spent years wantonly violating labor laws by threatening and intimidating workers into resisting unionization? If you’re the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), the answer would seem to be “get rid of the workers.” At least, that …
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Jul
13
Policy or Politics? DHS Changes and Expands 287(g) Program
Photo by ProComKelly. Last Friday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced changes to the controversial 287(g) program—a program which allows state and local police agencies to partner with ICE to enforce federal immigration laws. DHS also announced that, rather than waiting for the new policies to be implemented and tested, it has …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/07/13/policy-or-politics-as-usual-dhs-changes-and-expands-controversial-287g-program/
Jun
19
Administration Begins Rolling Back Midnight Regulations Left by Bush Administration
Photo by lombardi. While a bill that would reform our immigration system waits in queue behind other issues, like healthcare and climate change, the new Administration has begun a good faith effort to right some of the most egregious wrongs left by the former White House. For example, last week Secretary Napolitano suspended the Bush …
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May
27
High School Teens Deported on the Way to School
Photo by NeiTech. Three high school students were deported to Mexico last week when they were swept up in a Transportation Security Agency (TSA) raid at the Old Town transit center on their way to school in San Diego, California. Border Patrol confirmed that 21 people were detained. According to reports, TSA and Border Patrol …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/05/27/high-school-teens-deported-on-the-way-to-school/
May
15
Mexican Migration Slows Along With U.S. Economy
Photo by nathangibbs. Mexican Census data released this week shows a decline in Mexican migration to the United States. This data comes as no surprise and is in line with what other researchers have been saying for months when it comes to the immigration slow down: “it’s the economy stupid.” The New York Times reports …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2009/05/15/mexican-immigration-slowdown-economy/
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