Archive for the ‘ICE’ Category
Monday, November 9th, 2009
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the State Identification Bureau (SIB) have entered into a memorandum of agreement (MOA) regarding implementation of the Secure Communities (SC) Initiative related to biometric interoperability, setting forth responsibilities for both the agencies.
SC is a comprehensive ICE initiative that focuses on the identification and ...
Posted in Enforcement, ICE, ICE and SIB Agree on Implementing Securities Communities Biometric Interoperability, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Law Enforcement Agencies, LEAs, Memorandum of Agreement, Secure Communities, SIB, State Identification Bureau | No Comments »
Monday, November 9th, 2009
An operation conducted last November, by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Arizona to look for immigrant fugitives and criminals resulted primarily in the arrests of immigrants who were neither criminals nor fugitives, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona (ACLU) has found. The Arizona Republic reports that the operation ...
Posted in ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Arizona, DHS, Enforcement, ICE, ICE Arrests More Incidentals than Criminals, Immigration and Customs Enforcement | No Comments »
Monday, October 5th, 2009
Changing the tactics and using payroll audits rather than the guns and dogs as in the Bush era, an immigration crackdown by the Obama administration has led to the firing of about 1,800 workers at American Apparel in Los Angeles, according to an editorial written in the New York Times. ...
Posted in 800 workers at American Apparel in Los Angeles, DHS, Enforcement, ICE, Immigration Crackdown, John Morton, Napolitano, NY Times, Payroll Audits, Termination of 1, Worksite Enforcement | No Comments »
Friday, September 18th, 2009
A roofing contractor from Bolivar pleaded guilty to employing illegal immigrants, highlighting the continued use of undocumented workers in southwest Missouri, a spokesman with the U.S. attorney’s office said on Tuesday. On Monday, Russell D. Taylor, 31, waived his right to a federal grand jury and pleaded guilty to hiring ...
Posted in Bolivar, Enforcement, ICE, Roofer Pleads Guilty to Hiring Illegal Aliens, Russell D. Taylor, Undocumented Workers in Southwest Missouri | No Comments »
Friday, September 18th, 2009
The new report “The CAP effect: Racial Profiling in the ICE Criminal Alien Program,” was released by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity. The goal of the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) is to improve safety by targeting serious criminal offenders for deportation, according to ICE, ...
Posted in Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race Ethnicity and Diversity, Enforecement, ICE, Racial Profiling, Related News, The CapEffect: Racial Profiling in the ICE Criminal Alien Program | No Comments »
Friday, September 18th, 2009
In a major relief to immigrants detained in a short-term processing center in the basement of a Los Angeles federal building, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities have agreed by way of a settlement announced recently that detainees will no longer be held for weeks without access to drinking water, ...
Posted in ACLU, ACLUs Lawsuit, DHS, Humane Conditions for Immigration Detainees, ICE, Los Angeles Times, National Immigration Law Center, Paul Hastings Law Firm, Related News | No Comments »
Monday, August 17th, 2009
A non-profit network of 16 public interest centers in the U.S. and Mexico, Appleseed is gearing up to protect the rights of thousands of immigrant children living in the U.S. - whether asylum seekers, victims of human trafficking, or in some cases even misidentified American citizens apprehended by the authorities. ...
Posted in Akin Gump, Appleseed, CBP, DLA Piper, ICE, Immigrant Children in Custody, Mayer Brown, On-site Examinations of Detention Centers, Unaccompanied Children (UAM), Undocumented Immigrants | No Comments »
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Vindicating the stance of Human Rights advocates regarding the violation of Immigrant’s rights in raids, a federal judge has halted the deportation of four New Haven residents arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during raids in Fair Haven in 2007. Immigration Judge Michael Strauss said that the actions ...
Posted in Anant Sarawat Law 09, Board of Aldermen, Compliance, Fourth Amendment Rights, Human Rights Advocates, ICE, Yale Law School | No Comments »
Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Leading way for others, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department became the first law enforcement body in California to implement Secure Communities Program. Secure Communities administered by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), streamlines the process by which ICE determines whether an individual in the prison system is a removable ...
Posted in ICE, San Deigo, Secure Communities Program, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
With the completion of his swearing-in ceremony at Potomac Center North headquarters building in the nation’s capital, the new head John T. Morton became the third Assistant Secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to lead the agency in its six years of existence. The ceremony was officiated by the ...
Posted in DHS, ICE, John Morton, Uncategorized | No Comments »
