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ICE TRIES TO CHILL FOREIGN GANG MEMBERS

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, News & Comment, Dept. of Homeland Security
02. October 2008
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The New York Times' Solomon Moore reports on what has evidently become an annual event: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials arresting foreigners who belong to gangs. The practice first started in 2005 when the Dept. of Homeland Security's ICE targeted the El Salvadoran ...

E-VERIFY DATABASE DOESN’T SAVE THE DAY IN MISSISSIPPI

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, News & Comment
28. August 2008
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The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu has a "day 3" story on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid at a Mississippi factory that rounded up a record number of almost 600 undocumented immigrants. Hsu points out that the raid occurred, even though the factory was using the federal e-verify ...

ICE PROSECUTIONS PUT ON ICE?

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, News & Comment, Dept. of Homeland Security
27. August 2008
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The New York Times' Adam Nossiter follows-up on yesterdays report on immigration raids in Mississippi-- to say it's much bigger than previously thought. About 595 people were rounded-up-- after Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents put the figure at 350 on Monday.

On numbers ...

IMMIGRATION ENFORCERS BACK IN THE SADDLE

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, News & Comment, Dept. of Homeland Security
26. August 2008
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I blogged yesterday about Immigrations and Customs Enforcement scrapping its Scheduled Departure program that asked undocumented immigrants to turn themselves in. It seems that the Dept. of Homeland Security agency has quickly reverted to old habits-- an ICE raid detained 350 workers yesterday at a factory in Laurel, Miss.

The New ...

SCHEDULED TO FAIL

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, Yesterday's News?, News & Comment
25. August 2008
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After just three weeks, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement junked their "Operation Scheduled Departure" where 457,000 undocumented immigrants had the chance to turn themselves in exchange for....not being detained, I guess. The New York Times reports the final tally to be ...

SCHEDULED NOT TO WORK

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, News & Comment, Dept. of Homeland Security
10. August 2008
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The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu and Kari Lyderson took a look on Sunday at the newest -- and probably most ineffective -- immigration policy: "Scheduled Departure." While the name evokes dread about whether your plane will leave on time, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ...

IN IOWA, LABOR LAWS THROWN OUT THE WINDOW

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, Dept. of Labor, News & Comment
06. August 2008
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The New York Times' Julia Preston reports on the Iowa Labor Commission's finding that 57 underage workers were employed at Agriprocessors, a meatpacking plant in tiny Postville, Iowa. The investigation comes after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in May, which detained ...

AMID SCRUTINY, IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS JUST KEEP ARRESTING PEOPLE

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, News & Comment, Dept. of Homeland Security
21. July 2008
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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 ...

BUSINESSES FIGHT BACK ON IMMIGRATION CURBS

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, News & Comment, Immigration
07. July 2008
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Among other things, government is supposed to try to help increase employment, right?  But it almost looks like the federal and some state governments are trying to cut jobs in this country with overly aggressive on-site inspections.  Businesses are trying to fight back because, as Julia Preston ...

IMMIGRATION DETAINEE SCANDAL SPOTLIGHTED

Cat.: Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, News & Comment, Dept. of Homeland Security
03. July 2008
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The New York Times' Nina Bernstein reports that the Dept. of Homeland Security is promising to provide better information about immigrants that die while detained. A Dept. inspector general report finds bad information sharing between federal agencies about the deaths of undocumented ...