Enforcement-First Immigration Reform Stuck in First Step

Since its creation in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Department of Homeland Security has assiduously responded to the clamor of anti...

ICE's Expanding Mission: From Homeland Security to Community Security

The Department of Homeland Security has a bad case of mission creep. Created in the wake of Sept. 11 to better protect the country against a...

Path Forward to Integrity in Immigration System

(Conclusion of Restoring Integrity in Immigration System series.) The increasing emphasis on immigration enforcement has shifted the immigra...

Mass Incarceration of Immigrants

(Fifth in Restoring Integrity to Immigration Series.) The immigrant crackdown and the accompanying “crimmigration” of immigration law have l...

The Expanding Immigration Enforcement Apparatus

The 1996 laws – IIRIRA, AEDPA, and PRWORA – established the legal groundwork for the criminal alien focus of the current immigrant crackdown...

The "Crimmigration" Crisis

( Third in Restoring Integrity to Immigration System series.) In its study of the application of the “aggravated felony” provision in immig...

Immigrant Crackdown's "Severity Revolution" Roots

(Second in Restoring Integrity to Immigration System series.) While the ongoing crackdown on unauthorized and criminal aliens was launched b...

Restoring Integrity to Immigration System

(This is the first in a series on the distortion of immigration law and policy.) There is broad agreement that the immigration system is bro...

Federal-Feeding Frenzy on Border

Border counties, in particular, are already recipients of special federal law-enforcement assistance programs administered by DOJ and Homel...

The SCAAP Lobby, Part One

The Obama administration isn’t the first to call for the scrapping of the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. President Bush eliminated...

Criminal Justice System Expands for Immigrants

SCAAP is part of the federal-state-local criminal justice complex. It’s another add-on federal-aid bureaucracy aimed at keeping local and st...

Scrap SCAAP

There is no good financial justification for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP). Yet the Obama administration, which says i...

More of the Same from Obama Administration

Crime rates have been falling since the early 1990s. Penal systems are a burden that states say they can’t afford. There is national rising ...