Border monitoring / protection
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DHS helps New Mexico battle local gangs and cartels
In recent years, DHS has sent more and more federal agents and resources to New Mexico to help local law enforcement officials battle gangs, catch drug dealers, and other criminals; since 2009 DHS has deployed more than sixty agents to New Mexico and formed several joint task forces and multiagency groups
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The border fear index: How to measure border security
Both the administration and its critics rely on the FBI Uniform Crime Reports and on reported by the national media to make their arguments about how secure the U.S.-Mexican border is, and how to make it more secure; Lee Maril contends that the FBI report and the national media do not offer an accurate picture of the situation along the border because they are not nuanced enough; for example, they ignore the fear instilled in border-area residents by the cartels and the cartels’ collaborators, and they do not collect other relevant human behavior data
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CBP on the lookout for terrorists of a different kind – beetles
This fall customs agents at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport are on the lookout for dangerous visitors of a different kind – diseases; during the fall hunting season, agents are particularly busy inspecting shipments for animal parts or wild game originating from countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia; animal hides, skulls, antlers, heads, or carcasses from exotic game like warthogs, ibex, and birds often carry pernicious exotic diseases like African swine fever, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or Newcastle disease
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CBP wasted $69 million in building border fence
A recent government report reveals that DHS wasted $69 million by buying too much steel for a border fence project
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Another foreign executive arrested in Alabama on immigration charges
For the second time in recent weeks, Alabama law enforcement officials arrested a foreign car manufacturing executive under the state’s strict new immigration law
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Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration law
On Monday the Supreme Court announced that it would weigh in on the controversial debate surrounding Arizona’s hotly contested immigration law
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Report challenges criticism of Secure Communities
A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), an non-profit Washington, D.C.-based organization supporting low immigration, examines the outcomes of ICE’s Secure Communities program and how those outcomes, in CIS words, “have been misleadingly described in one widely circulated study published by the Warren Institute at the University of California, Berkeley Law School”
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Holder: Repercussions of Fast and Furious will be felt for “years to come”
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress last Thursday that guns lost as a result of the botched “Fast and Furious” operation will be found at crimes scene on both sides of the border “for years to come”
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Clamping down on corrupt border patrol agents
With millions of dollars in drugs and money being funneled across the border, temptation lurks at every corner and government officials are not immune; 134 former or current border patrol agents have been arrested or indicted on corruption charges in the last seven years
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus moves against Alabama immigration law
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D – Illinois) is stepping up his attacks against Alabama’s immigration law by seeking to enlist DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano; this week Gutierrez and other members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus met with Secretary Napolitano to request that top federal immigration officials make it clear that immigration enforcement is a federal matter and out of states’ jurisdiction
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Study calls latest ICE deportation figures into question
A recent Syracuse University study found that DHS’ latest deportation figures were incorrect and that the majority of deportations in Colorado for the last fiscal year were not in fact high-priority criminals as the agency claimed
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DHS will comply with subpoena regarding non-deported aliens
House Republicans want to know how the Obama administration decides which aliens to deport and which aliens to allow to remain in the United States. DHS says it will comply with a congressional subpoena seeking DHS records on the issue.
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California leads nation in E-Verify adoption despite concerns
In the past year California saw a 37 percent surge in E-Verify enrollment by businesses, making it the largest adopter of the system in the United States; unlike other states that have made E-Verify mandatory for public and private employers, California legislators recently passed a law that bans local governments from forcing businesses to sign on to the program
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Illinois Congressman helps worker fight South Carolina immigration law
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D – Illinois) is wading into South Carolina politics by fighting to prevent a local worker from being deported by federal immigration authorities. On Wednesday Gutierrez appeared in a Charleston Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on behalf of Gabino Sanchez, who had been arrested on a traffic violation and found to be an illegal immigrant
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Sector Report for Thursday, 1 December 2011: Border / Immigration control
This report contains the following stories.
Plus 1 additional story.
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