Congress’s Immigrant Detention Quota Costs $2 Billion a Year – Businessweek

ICE has been trying to keep up with Washington’s demands to send illegal aliens back home. In e-mails and memos from April 2012 sent between workers and a former ICE administrator David Venturella, look employees were told to divert resources to increase their arrests and deportations because of concerns the agency wasn’t meeting its quotas. The mess…

Congress’s Immigrant Detention Quota Costs $2 Billion a Year – Businessweek

ICE has been trying to keep up with Washington’s demands to send illegal aliens back home. In e-mails and memos from April 2012 sent between workers and a former ICE administrator David Venturella, case employees were told to divert resources to increase their arrests and deportations because of concerns the agency wasn’t meeting its quotas. The mess…

Congress’s Immigrant Detention Quota Costs $2 Billion a Year – Businessweek

ICE has been trying to keep up with Washington’s demands to send illegal aliens back home. In e-mails and memos from April 2012 sent between workers and a former ICE administrator David Venturella, employees were told to divert resources to increase their arrests and deportations because of concerns the agency wasn’t meeting its quotas. The mess…

Opposition Increases Against Immigration Screenings in Jails

Opposition is growing against a new policy that would allow federal immigration screenings in jails across the United States. The immigration enforcement policy, look known as Se Communities, has caused the deportation of around 280,000 illegal immigrants in the last few years. There are definitely people who are for the program nationwide, but more and more people are fighting against it. “We’re finally seeing the tide turning against the idea that it is good to use police as deportation agents,” said Chris Newman of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. According to Stateline, the Se Communities program allows the screenings to take place for criminals who are suspected may be here illegally.