The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu reports on the dramatic shift in U.S. immigration policy toward mass arrests of undocumented immigrant workers. Five years ago, the feds arrested 72 such workers. Already this year, though, the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested 937 undocumented immigrants.

In making these arrests, ICE is conducting wiretapping and raids similar to those for drug lords and mafia leaders. Why doesn’t ICE instead channel its energy toward the employers that hire these illegal immigrants? Stewart Baker, asst. secretary for policy at DHS, says it’s because Congress hasn’t given them such law enforcement power.-MB

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