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 ...

The New York Times’ Randel C. Archibold and Andrew Becker uncover the potentially huge security problem of border patrol agents taking bribes. In 2007, the Dept. of Homeland Security launched 79 investigations into border agents suspected of taking payoffs to let immigrants coming from Mexico into ...

The Wall Street Journal’s Kelly Evans says that new restrictions on non-agricultural seasonal labor are hurting small businesses. Last year, in the midst of unsuccessfully trying to craft a comprehensive immigration bill, Congress let expire an exemption in its H2-B Visa program allowing for non-agricultural seasonal labor.

So ...

The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu reports that Congress is after Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Julie Meyers, secretary of DHS’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, for appalling medical conditions at immigration detention centers. Today, Chertoff and Meyers will meet with Senate majority leader Harry ...

The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu reported yesterday from Postville, Iowa, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials raided a meatpacking plant, rounding-up 389 undocumented immigrants. The detained immigrants, many held at a Cattle Exhibit Hall, are more than 10 percent ...

The New York Times’ Conrad Mulcahy reports that Iraqis who have worked as interpreters for the U.S. military continue have trouble immigrating to the United States. Translators are not only in the line of fire but face particular dangers from Iraqi insurgents who ...

The Washington Post’s Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein have part two in a series that started Sunday on detained U.S. immigrants. These immigrants are sent to obscure compounds run by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement arm.

The 33,000 detainees look ...

The New York Times’ Nina Bernstein reports that between 2004 and 2007, 66 detained immigrants died under custody of the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. Unlike prisons, ICE detention centers, some of which are privately-owned, have no procedures for detainees to exchange information with the ...

The Department of Homeland Security has given Boeing billions of dollars to construct a border security program. But the Government Accountability Office concluded in February that the 28-mile “virtual fence” built by Boeing, in Arizona, did not meet the contract’s requirements and shouldn’t be replicated elsewhere.

Now, ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff meets today with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa about federal raids of illegal immigrants. Villaraigosa is the most prominent example of mayors upset that DHS’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement is detaining factory workers vital to the local economy.

The Wall Street ...