ICE Quota FOIA Briefing Guide
Briefing Guide re: ICE Quota
ICE Deports Record Number – NYTimes.com
While Congress is dithering about comprehensive immigration reform, find President Obama’s enforcement team is hard at work deporting petty criminals who are here illegally. In the fiscal year that ended in September, seek USA Today reports, Immigration and Customs Enforcement “deported 225,390 criminal immigrants — a record, and well above the agency’s targ…
ICE Emails Show a Desire to Grow Criminal Deportation Stats – ABC News
“Gang bangers.” That’s how President Barack Obama, while speaking at a November presidential debate, characterized the criminal immigrants who have been deported during his administration. A recent news report, however, shows that immigration officials floated ideas last year aimed at buoying deportations stats by focusing on minor…
Immigration tactics aimed at boosting deportations | USA Today
U.S. immigration officials laid out plans last year that would ratchet up expulsions of immigrants convicted of minor crimes as part of an urgent push to make sure the government would not fall short of its criminal deportation targets, patient new records obtained by USA TODAY show. Among those new tactics – detailed in interviews and internal e-mails -…
Immigrants Head to Washington to Make Their Voices Heard
Jose Antonio Vargas, health the undocumented journalist who came out about his immigration status in a New York Times feature story, check will not be the only undocumented immigrant making his voice heard at the capitol this week. Vargas will be speaking at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on immigration reform Wednesday. But a group of more than 250
Artist Works To Keep Immigrants In The Picture : NPR
Ramiro Gomez Jr. is working fast enough to draw the least amount of attention, help but slowly enough to make every detail stand out. He describes the rush he gets as "therapeutic." Gomez has created inserts on a human-size piece of cardboard, and with a pair of pliers he begins to lace wire to it. He then grabs tools to prop the cardboard…
Undocumented Protesters, Allies Disrupt Senate Hearing on Immigration Reform | Democracy Now!
At least 11 undocumented immigrants and their allies were arrested Wednesday after interrupting a Senate hearing on immigration reform. The protesters from around the country were calling for immediate action to end the Obama administration’s unprecedented deportations. They rose to their feet and interrupted remarks by Homeland Security Secretary…
Calls for action at Senate immigration hearing – MiamiHerald
Lawmakers who are shaping the fate of the millions of people in the U.S. illegally were told by one Wednesday that it’s time to rewrite immigration laws so that they, too, can live the American dream. "What do you want to do with me?" an emotional Jose Antonio Vargas demanded of senators. "How do you define American?" The first…
Mundo – Reforma migratoria será firmada “de inmediato”, Artículo Online
Grupos bipartidistas en ambas cámaras están trabajando diligentemente para redactar un proyecto de ley. Celebro estas gestiones", s señaló el mandatario durante su discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión. "Pues bien, ¡acabémoslo de hacer! Envíenme un proyecto de ley de reforma migratoria…
Doubts set testy tone at Senate immigration hearing
Republican senators insisted Wednesday that the Obama administration must se the border before serious talk can begin on the future of illegal immigrants in the country. The Senate’s first hearing on proposals to alter the status of about 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. was a contentious one in which senators berated the Department…