Archive for the ‘Immigration and Customs Enforcement’ Category
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Effective January 04, 2010, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer detain asylum seekers arriving at U.S. ports of entry and who have a credible fear of persecution or torture. The revised guidelines announced on December 16, 2009 will permit parole from detention, which temporarily authorizes aliens to ...
Posted in Detention Reform Initiatives, Enforcement, ICE Issues New Procedure for Asylum Seekers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Parole from Detention | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Federal immigration officials are cracking down on Vermont dairy farmers asking them to provide records to prove their workers are legal. Kelly Lotus, a spokeswoman for the state Agency of Agriculture, says immigration officials visited four farms on Thursday. She says the move creates another level of anxiety and stress ...
Posted in Agency of Agriculture, Crackdown on Vermont Dairy Farms, Enforcement, Federal Immigration Officials, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Lotus, Patrick Leahy | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
According to a report from Minnesota Public Radio, about 1,200 undocumented janitors in the Twin Cities were fired from their jobs last month. The janitors worked for San Francisco-based ABM Corporation that cleans many downtown office towers. The ABM letter revealed that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had problems with ...
Posted in ABM Corporation, Enforcement, ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Immigration Raids, Minnesota Public Radio, Tony Mitchell, Undocumented Janitors | No Comments »
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 »
Friday, August 14th, 2009
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have joined hands with Mexico through a Letter of Intent to develop a coordinated and intelligence driven response to the threat of cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons and ammunition. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, Mexican Attorney General ...
Posted in Cross border smuggling and trafficking of weapons and ammunition, DHS, DOJ, Dooperation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Janet Napolitano, John Morton, Letter of Intent, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina-Mora, Mexican National Public Security System Executive Secretary Jorge Tello Peon, Mexico, Related News | No Comments »
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Off late there has been a growing list of law enforcement agencies to receive biometric-based immigration history information about inmates via the new Secure Communities program, and the latest to join are nine Florida Counties - Charlotte, Clay, Collier, Duval, Hillsborough, Marion, Miami Dade, St. John’s, and St. Lucie counties. ...
Posted in Charlotte, Clay, Colier, Compliance, Department of Justice, Duval, Florida Counties, Hillsborough, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Marion, Miami Dade, Removable Criminal Aliens, Secure Communities Program, St. John's, St. Lucie | No Comments »
