Tuesday, October 12, 2010

ICE Presents Misleading Deportation Data

Legislative Update

FOR THE WEEK OF October 12, 2010 

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ICE Presents Misleading Deportation Data

email imageOn October 6, Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director, John Morton, held a press conference to announce that in 2010 ICE had “removed more illegal aliens than in any other period in the history of our nation.” According to ICE’s deportation statistics, from October 2009 until September 2010, the agency deported 392,862 illegal aliens. Roughly half of the deportations—more than 195,000—were of criminal illegal aliens. (Id.) However, Napolitano failed to mention that while the deportation of criminal illegal aliens has risen, the change in the total number of overall deportations is statistically insignificant. In fact, the number of deportations of non-criminal illegal aliens has decreased, reflecting not only the unwillingness of the Obama Administration to uniformly enforce U.S. immigration laws against both criminal and non-criminal illegal aliens, but also the Administration’s constant misrepresentation of immigration data to make it appear as if it is actually enforcing the law.

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Media Giants Advocate Amnesty

email imageMichael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor and founder of Bloomberg L.P. (which provides financial news and information), and Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive officer of News Corporation (which includes media outlets such as the Fox News Channel and the Wall Street Journal), testified before the House Immigration Subcommittee on Immigration in support of amnesty legislation at the end of September. In particular, the two media giants were invited to share their perspectives on the relationship between immigration and the economy.

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Federal Agents Concerned Asylum Seekers Pose Risk

email image“We are responsible for the security and safety of the people of the United States and we really don’t know who is coming,” a federal agent in San Diego told reporters on the condition of anonymity. The agent’s comment is in response to the growing number of political asylum seekers coming to the U.S. from Somalia who disappear from the government’s radar shortly after arrival. (Id.) This is occurring at a time when the Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamist group, Al-Shabab, has threatened to attack the United States. Leaders of Al-Shabab have claimed affiliation with Al-Qaeda since 2007, and in 2008 the U.S. government added the group to its list of foreign terrorist organizations.

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Rep. Poe, Sen. Hatch Introduce Border Security Bills

email imageOn the same night that Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) introduced a bill that would grant mass amnesty to the 13 million illegal aliens in the U.S., Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX), introduced bills to strengthen our borders and decrease immigration levels. Sen. Hatch’s bill, S.3901, the “Strengthening Our Commitment to Legal Immigration and America’s Security Act,” contains provisions to increase security measures at the border and eliminate the diversity visa program. Likewise, Rep. Poe’s bill, H.R. 6253, the “National Guard Border Enforcement Act,” aims to secure the U.S.-Mexico border by increasing the number of National Guard Troops deployed.

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