By Michelle Peirano Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Senators questioned assurances Wednesday that the border is getting more secure, telling Homeland Security officials that the government needs a better plan and a better way of measuring progress on the border. Witnesses told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that apprehensions at the border [...]
Blog: Compromise on ‘Pathway to Citizenship’ is Short of True Reform
By Nancy Landa Mundo Citizen We are only a few days away from legislation being introduced to formalize the national conversation on solutions to the immigration issue that the U.S. has unaddressed since the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. Although we are seeing some Republicans now forcibly crossing the aisle to support [...]
What needs to be considered for real immigration reform
LatinaLista — If one thing was clear from the testimony of Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday morning, it’s that she wants to see immigration reform addressed in 2010. With senators questioning Napolitano on everything from immigration status, detention and deportation to asylum seekers and border [...]
Is the Department of Homeland Security going after the wrong “criminal aliens?”
LatinaLista — One of the hopes the Latino electorate had of the Obama administration was that Obama would do away with the punitive measures of illegal immigration enforcement started during the Bush years. One of the most egregious tactics for detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants is the use by local law enforcement of what is [...]
New measures to improve detention policies of undocumented immigrants doesn’t go far enough
LatinaLista — Finally, the Department of Homeland Security has a brain! Notorious for treating all apprehended undocumented immigrants, children included, as hardened criminals locked away in prison-type facilities, DHS Secretary Napolitano and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton, announced today changes to how undocumented immigrants will be detained. For starters, ICE [...]
Alas, high hopes for change in an Obama Department of Homeland Security are crashing — one-by-one
LatinaLista — When Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano assumed her office, there were plenty of cynics who wondered if Napolitano would truly be a breath of fresh air for the DHS or merely Michael Chertoff, her predecessor, in drag. Department of Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano (Photo Source: AP) At the beginning, there [...]
