• CBP is using automated rail and sea e-manifests

    CBP said it began using Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) e-Manifest for rail and sea; the ACE pilots, which began in November, focus on transitioning full rail and sea manifest capability to ACE from the legacy system

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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”

  • 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”

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • DHS will provide immigration data demanded by House Republicans

    The Obama administration has agreed to provide information requested by House Republicans regarding its Secure Communities program and the process it uses to determine which illegal immigrants should be deported

  • DHS launches wide-ranging review of immigration court cases

    DHS said it will begin reviewing about 300,000 deportation proceedings to implement prosecutorial discretion measures laid out in a June 2011 ICE memo. The review is intended to allow overburdened immigration judges to focus on deporting foreigners who committed serious crimes or pose national security risks.

  • 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.