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 ...

Mission Focus on the Border

Since Sept. 11 the White House and the Congress have routinely approved proposals for increased numbers of Border Patrol agents. In the last...

Operation Stonegarden's "Friendly Forces" on the Border

The new border security initiative announced by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in March 2009 stresses DHS collaboration with l...

The Failed Secure Border Initiative

Something isn’t working. In late 2005 Michael Chertoff, the new secretary of the Homeland Security Department, launched the “Secure Border ...