WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 statistics which reflect the Department’s immigration enforcement efforts that prioritize convicted criminals and threats to public safety, border security, and national security. Overall, the Department apprehended 406,595 individuals nationwide and conducted a total […]
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DHS Secretary Statement on the Washington Post’s November 9 Story Concerning Digitized Records
11 Nov
by Foster, on News
On November 9, The Washington Post published “DHS Bid to Go Digital Falls Flat,” a story on the digitization program launched by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in 2006. The story fails to recognize the progress DHS and USCIS have made in recent years to correct course on this important initiative. Thanks […]
By Jerry Markon Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter scaled back cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration- enforcement efforts in April 2014, accusing agents of aggressively targeting for deportation illegal immigrants who led otherwise law-abiding lives. Then he got a visit from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. And a […]
Immigration Official Walks Back Support For Mandating That Police Hold Immigrants
20 Mar
by Foster, on News
WASHINGTON — The director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday that she would support a law to require local law enforcement to hold immigrants for ICE even if they oppose doing so — seemingly flying in the face of recent efforts by the Obama administration to mend relationships with […]