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• Law and Order at the Border

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  The U.S.-Mexico border: notice the lack of arrests in the picture The Wall Street Journal’s Cam Simpson reports that arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border were down 23 percent in the past year, according to the Dept. of Homeland Security. This continues a pretty amazing law enforcement trend: there were 1.7 ...
  2 days ago

• Highly-Skilled Labor Not Coming to America

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  The Wall Street Journal’s Miriam Jordan identifies a really interesting economic/immigration indicator — the federal H-1B program, which provides 65,000 Visas a year to match highly-skilled immigration labor with U.S. companies, has only received 46,700 applications since they were first accepted in April. It ...
  2 weeks ago

• Civil Libertarians Publicly Express DHS Privacy Concerns

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu reports that the Privacy Coalition, a group of major civil libertarians and plain old libertarian groups are upset with the Department of Homeland Security’s commitment to privacy. The coalition wants to strengthen the hand of the DHS privacy officer to stop practices like ...
  2 weeks ago

• It’s a Very Free Country: Charles Peters on Homeland Security’s Inability to Track Expired Visas

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  Charlie Peters called this one in following problems at the Department of Homeland Security reported on by the New York Times (and following a post from our own Matthew Blake which should be nominated for best 2009 immigration-related-blog-post headline ).  Charlie says that “eight years after 9/11 they still ...
  3 weeks ago

• ICE Should Water Down Its Program to Deport Illegal Aliens

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu reports that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is struggling to balance its efforts to deport illegal immigrants while respecting the civil rights of these immigrants. Since 2006, ICE has had a program that lets county and city police officers report to ICE illegal ...
  3 weeks ago

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