RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Local governments cannot opt out of a federal program that checks the fingerprints of people who are arrested against a database to determine if they are illegal immigrants, the head of the immigration enforcement agency said Friday. Read more
Janet Napolitano urges officials to stop exaggerating violence on U.S. side of border
The Homeland Security secretary tries to make her case with FBI crime statistics, but public perceptions are hard to change
By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau —–February 1, 201 Read more
Ellensburg, WA armed federal raids detain 30.
Federal raid leads to 30 being taken into custody
Federal raid leads to 30 being taken into custody By DAILY RECORD STAFF Daily Record | 15 comments
Federal agents early Thursday morning arrested 14 Ellensburg area residents related to criminal charges of manufacture and purchase of counterfeit identity and employment documents, according to a news release from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
Another 16 were taken into custody on administrative immigration violations, and three of those were later released Read more
Immigrant vets face deportation despite service
By JULIANA BARBASSA, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO – When Rohan Coombs joined the U.S. Marine Corps, he never thought one day he would be locked up in an immigration detention center and facing deportation from the country he had vowed to defend.
Coombs, 43, born in Jamaica, immigrated to the United States legally as a child with his family. He signed up to serve Read more
Border Patrol has made a 2nd offer for the Eagles lodge building in Port Angeles
Eagles considering latest Border Patrol offer
By Paul Gottlieb, Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Eagles club members are expected to meet by Wednesday to consider the Border Patrol’s second offer to buy the club’s lodge building for a new North Olympic Peninsula headquarters. Read more
PORT ANGELES — Eagles club members are expected to meet by Wednesday to consider the Border Patrol’s second offer to buy the club’s lodge building for a new North Olympic Peninsula headquarters. Read more
Feds say fingerprint and check immigration database or else!
Localities Warned on Fingerprinting
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
How Wall Street Profits from the Criminalization of Immigrants
…and Lobbies for More To Be Locked Up
Two Wall Street-backed powerhouses are making fat profits off of the private immigration detention system, and they’re flexing their muscles in Congress. This article contains background info, facts, and figures!
October 9, 2010 | by
Over the past four years roughly a million immigrants have been incarcerated in dangerous detention facilities in our taxpayer-financed private prison system. Read more
Tell ICE to Stop Secretive Local Police Collaboration
Tell ICE to Stop Secretive Local Police Collaboration
Recently, an immigrant living in California called the police during a domestic violence incident. Instead of receiving the help she needed, she was arrested, fingerprinted and transferred into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody—even though no charges were filed against her.
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Another letter opposing new Border Patrol Station
“This explosion in the size and scope of the Border Patrol is extremely troubling.”
Dear Mr. Parsons,
We are writing in opposition to the plan by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to spend $8 million on a major expansion of its Port Angeles facility in order to accommodate 50 agents. The current number is 25, up from a total number of 4 in 2006. Read more
Obama signs Border Bill to Increase Surveillance
By JULIA PRESTON, New York Times August 14, 2010
President Obama signed into law a $600 million bill on Friday to pay for 1,500 new border agents, additional unmanned surveillance drones and new Border Patrol stations along the southwest border.
The measure sailed through Congress in little more than a week with broad bipartisan support, demonstrating Read more
Government Documents Reveal Pattern of Dishonesty by I.C.E.
The “Secure Communities” program automatically runs fingerprints through immigration databases for all people arrested and targets them for detention and deportation even if their criminal charges are minor, eventually dismissed, or the result of an unlawful arrest…. Read more