Posts Tagged ‘Department of homeland security’

Despite hundreds of calls, ICE deports Florida cousins

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 1:10 pm By Allie

Last week, we launched an emergency SMS campaign to drive calls to stop the deportation of Adolfo Garcia Diaz and Julio Diaz Sales, immigrants who were attacked by ICE agents when their home was mistakenly raided.

DHS begins pilot programs for Denver and Baltimore

Posted: December 7, 2011 at 6:35 pm By Allie

The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice is beginning the second phase of its recent announcement on implementing prosecutorial discretion for undocumented immigrants.

Today’s DHS announcement: More rhetoric, or a sign of change?

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 1:26 pm By Allie

The Department of Homeland Security announced it is launching a two-part strategy on the national process of prosecutorial discretion for deportation cases.

DHS announcement and Avoiding Fraud

Posted: August 24, 2011 at 10:32 am By Melvin

The recent DHS  announcement about changes in the deportation process has raised many questions, as well as opened the door to fraud by dishonest notaries, immigration consultants, and other people looking for an opportunity to take advantage of immigrants. Many people are asking whether this announcement means that they can apply to fix their status, [...]

BREAKING: DHS announces changes to deportation proceedings

Posted: August 18, 2011 at 3:47 pm By Nicole

Senior administration officials have announced that the Department of Homeland Security is refocusing their deportation efforts. In July, the Obama Administration passed the 1 million deportation mark, a number that includes a record number of non-criminal immigrants. In DHSs announcement today, officials said that they are reprioritizing the deportation proceedings and now will heavily focus [...]

Immigration Groups Denounce Latest Secure Communities Announcement

Posted: August 5, 2011 at 5:50 pm By Nicole

In May, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn terminated Illinois’ participation in Secure Communities. Weeks later, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and New York Governor Mario Cuomo also backed out of the highly-flawed program. These Governors rejected the program citing concerns of the program’s impact on victims and witnesses of crimes. Three other states and the District of [...]

Too Broken to Fix: Advocates call for an end to 287(g)

Posted: April 9, 2010 at 12:00 pm By Rachel LaBruyere

The drumbeat of criticism surrounding President Obama’s immigration enforecment strategy is growing louder by the day. America’s Voice released the video above earlier this week, to call out the “rogue tactics” currently in place. While the Service Employees International Union followed up with their own efforts to “Reign in ICE”. On Wednesday, the Reform Immigration [...]

Tip of the ICEberg

Posted: April 5, 2010 at 10:53 am By Rachel LaBruyere

By Mary Giovagnoli, originally posted on Immigration Impact. The irony of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s acronym—ICE—has never been lost on anyone, including the agency itself. Shortly after its formation, posters appeared in government offices of an iceberg as big as the one that sunk the Titanic with the motto: ICE—What you see is just the [...]

ICE Out of Control: Time to Rein in Rogue Agency and Pass Immigration Reform

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 7:54 pm By admin

By Frank Sharry, originally posted on the America’s Voice blog (also cross-posted on the Huffington Post). Today, a group of grassroots leaders are demanding that the Obama Administration fire John Morton, the head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) within the Department of Homeland Security. Deepak Bhargava of the Center of Community Change, [...]

ICE Slip Up Casts Serious Doubt on Immigration Enforcement Strategy

Posted: March 30, 2010 at 11:24 am By admin

By Michele Waslin, originally posted on Immigration Impact. Over the last week, there has been a great deal of outrage, confusion, and backtracking on the issue of who and how many people the U.S. government deports. Faced with a great deal of criticism for Bush-style enforcement, the Administration announced last year that it would no [...]