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Battle Over SB 1070
Submitted by nadine wahab on Tue, 2010-06-08 11:54Last week, South Carolina and Minnesota introduced copy-cat versions of AZ's SB 1070 with 8 other states set to follow suit, while hundreds of protestors descended on the White House to send a clear message of concern to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer during her visit with the President.
Don’t Quota Me
Submitted by nadine wahab on Wed, 2010-03-31 17:16Sarnata Reynolds, March 30, 2010 -- On February 22, James Chaparro’s sixth day on the job as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) behemoth detention and removal operation, he issued a memo directing all ICE field office directors to collectively identify, detain and deport 400,000 individuals in 2010.
Secure Communities: Turning a Blind Eye
Submitted by nadine wahab on Sun, 2009-11-22 13:39On Nov. 2, Acting Executive Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities Program, Marc Rapp, alleged in a letter to the New York Times that the program “doesn’t racially profile.” This conclusion misses the point. Rapp’s myopic assessment of the Secure Communities Program fails to account for racial profiling that occurs before individuals are booked and turns a blind eye to local law enforcement misbehavior.
