Posted on 03/31/2009 4:39:28 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - While the attention of the U.S. federal government is currently focused on Mexico, immigration and the battle against drugs will continue to be a vital focal point of the Department of Homeland Security.
Part of the immigration reforms that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is pushing for is to shift their attention on U.S. employers who abate the illegal immigration problem by bringing in or coddling undocumented workers, instead of zeroing in solely on migrant workers.
According to USA Today the revised policy guidelines will be sent to agents of the department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement early this week. The shift seeks to have the country's immigration policies address observations made by then presidential candidate Barack Obama's that the failure of enforcement efforts was because of its focus on the migrants than employers.
Napolitano, who is leaving for Mexico on April 1 to 3, in her Pen and Pad Session with media on March 19, stressed the extra attention given to Mexico is part of the DHS' attempt to deal with the changing threat environment.
Even prior to the shift in policy, the ICE has been securing more cooperation from businesses which led to 863 criminal arrests and 4,077 administrative arrests made by the ICE in fiscal year 2007.
To combat illegal immigration with the help of worksites the ICE came out in 2006 with the ICE Mutual Agreement between the federal government and employers which aimed to assist U.S. companies ensure their hiring practices are strengthened using the voluntary compliance program.
USA Today, quoting Homeland Security officials, said business inspections would continue, along with planned amendments to U.S. immigration law and policy.
With all the money that this adminstration is THROWING AWAY — BY THE HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS....we could have TEN border fences from San Diego to the Gulf of Mexico. And drug, illegal immigrant, and crime traffic could BE HALTED!!!!
If they wanted to halt it.
Fence won’t do it the have mini subs now
I watch Spanish TV and every news broadcast has been full of this for the past two days, and I’m not just talking about the ones in the U.S. Why don’t they send out a big, ol’ engraved invitation to potential illegals asking them to come on over?
Go to any paint store or Home Depot in San Francisco, and you will see large groups of Mexican men standing around, all day. There are DOZENS of them —sometimes crowds— just waiting to be picked up.
What’s going on?
Part of the immigration reforms that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is pushing for is to shift their attention on U.S. employers who EXACERBATE the illegal immigration problem by bringing in or coddling undocumented workers
Why did they say ABATE? I mean, the companies have ABATED the immigration problem so much that now there are illegals everwhere? Some staff there apparently never took the SAT...
That is a MAJOR vocabulary error --the sentence does not even make sense.
migrant.... how about illegal?
The word needed here is "ABET" not abate. Abate here is grammatcally misused and otherwise is the reverse of the probable intended meaning. Abate is to lessen. Abet is to assist and encourage.
Must be because professional journalists have a staff of proofreaders, who poor over an article before it is released.
(/sarc)
They pour out their hearts poring over the poor text.
Ping!
The Dems want those illegal votes.
Puts a lot of Freepers in an awkward postion.
“Puts a lot of Freepers in an awkward postion.”
A shame, isn’t it.
Ridiculous. There is no reason why they can’t focus their attention on BOTH. We’ve been saying all along that if they are going to raid the companies and haul off the illegals, they ought to be able to cuff the employers as well.
I agree, but:
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