New Orleans The Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) started taking a hard look at whether the controversial 287g program of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency almost from the day President Obama took office. This program subcontracts enforcement of immigration laws to local city and county police and sheriff’s departments …
Category: Immigration Reform
Coordinated Autonomy in Montreal
Montreal We were meeting on a cold afternoon in the new offices of the Immigrant Workers’ Center with a host of organizations and activists in Montreal much like a “focus” group of sorts on ACORN Canada and ACORN International and how they might fit and contribute to the ongoing work in this great city. People …
Immigration Reform Rally on the Mall
Washington The front page news may have been the high drama of health care passage in the House, but between the White House and the Capitol, filling blocks inside the Mall, the story was the demand of thousands from all over the country, and in this case all over the world, who were coming to …