Posts Tagged ‘Department of homeland security’
Napolitano Confirms Timeline for Obama Administration on Immigration Overhaul
Posted: December 10, 2009 at 4:28 pm By adminBy Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice. Cross-posted at Huffington Post.
In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano reiterated the Obama Administration’s plan to push for Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation early next year.
In her opening statement, Napolitano said:
Finally, we look forward to working with you on immigration [...]
National Security Experts, DHS Secretary Napolitano Explain Need for Immigration Reform
Posted: December 9, 2009 at 12:59 pm By adminBy Marjorie Valbrun. Originally posted at the America’s Voice blog.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill will get an earful this week about why it’s time for Congress to tackle comprehensive immigration reform. Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, will likely be making this case when she appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on [...]
VIDEO: How We Will Make Real Immigration Reform a Reality!
Posted: November 20, 2009 at 2:03 pm By Rachel LaBruyereOn Wednesday night, 60,000 people joined what was an incredible call to action on overhauling our nation’s broken immigration laws.
Today, we’re releasing a new video that features Congressman Luis Gutierrez unveiling his principles for reform in October, and which calls on all of us to help build the movement for real immigration reform:
We all know [...]
Napolitano: DHS needs immigration reform
Posted: November 16, 2009 at 5:23 pm By Maurice BelangerOriginally posted at ImmPolitic Blog.
On Friday, the Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, gave a speech at the Center for American Progress laying out the Obama Administration’s position on immigration reform. It was a very strong speech, and what follows are some highlights.
First, Secretary Napolitano acknowledged the Administration’s preoccupation with the very serious economic situation [...]
Welcoming detention reform, waiting for immigration reform
Posted: October 8, 2009 at 3:49 pm By adminOriginally posted on ImmPolitic blog, by Maurice Belanger.
VIDEO: Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO)’s floor speech on the ICE Immigration Detention Overview and Recommendations Report released yesterday.
Earlier this year, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano ordered a review of the immigration detention system overseen by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In August, ICE announced that it was undertaking reforms [...]
Homeland Security on the Web: the Good and the Not-So-Good
Posted: September 30, 2009 at 10:26 am By adminBy Maurice Belanger, originally posted at ImmPolitic Blog.
It was not so long ago that the INS, now USCIS, was a paper-based organization. Records were kept on paper, got shuffled around among offices, and frequently were lost, leading to the great frustration of its customers, mostly immigrants and their families and employers. Last week, USCIS [...]
Homeland Security 2.0: DHS on the Web
Posted: September 2, 2009 at 5:43 pm By National Immigration ForumOriginally posted at ImmPolitic blog:
In DHS’s attempts to balance “getting tough” on immigration enforcement with showing that the Administration’s policies aren’t also “more of the same”, a new and curious trend has emerged—an effort to engage the American populace on DHS issues through social networking sites and other online media communications. The question of whether [...]
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