Talking About "Criminal Aliens"

Liberal immigration reformers and immigrant-rights activists generally avoid talking about “criminal aliens.” Criminal alien is what the Dep...

Criminal Aliens from "Geopolitical Perspective"

At a time when an immigration reform that would legalize the status of the 10-million plus population of unauthorized immigrants seems like ...

The Criminal Alien Shuffle

A little more than ten years ago the Bureau of Prisons issued its first Criminal Alien Requirement (CAR) request for proposals for contracts...

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...

Fast-Tracking Secure Communities

"Secure Communities" is coming your way . Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says that it plans to have the new “criminal a...

The "Criminal Alien" Crusader

What are we getting for our investment in more aggressive immigration enforcement? That’s what Rep. David Price (D-NC) wanted to know when ...

Comprehensive Reform and Criminal Aliens

The crusade is heating up to remove “criminal aliens” from our midst. At a time when the Obama administration is sending signals that it mig...

Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement in Irving, Texas

The federal government’s focus on arresting and deporting “criminal aliens” has left immigrant advocates and other proponents of comprehensi...