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What you know about our "open" border is completely wrong.
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” That quote is widely known to come from Mark Twain. But he may not be the author. Ironically, his ownership is one of the many things some people know for sure that quite possibly ain’t so. This blog is at mythfighter.com because it aims to dispel claims most people know that just ain’t…
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Concerns About the New Priority Enforcement Program
Remarks of Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies, Center for Immigration Studies Press Conference hosted by the Texas Sheriffs Association, State Capitol, Austin August 5, 2015 The implementation of ICE's new Priority Enforcement Program (PEP) is a major setback to rule of law in our country. It further scales back immigration enforcement by ICE and it explicitly facilitates sanctuary jurisdictions in obstructing ICE efforts to take custody of criminal aliens. This has enormous implications for public safety in Texas. read more
President's Policing Task Force Targets Immigration Enforcement
The president's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, which was formed in the wake of Ferguson and other controversial policing events last year (none of which had anything to do with immigration), unfortunately has become another opportunity for anti-immigration enforcement activists to fabricate "mainstream" support for the continued crippling of DHS enforcement agencies by the Obama administration. read more
Analysis of Obama's Executive Amnesty Scheme: Ending Secure Communities
(Note: This is the fourth and final item in a series analyzing enforcement-related portions of the executive action authorized by the president.) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson testified before the House of Representatives on December 2 that he thinks it's a "bad idea" for Congress to consider a short-term funding bill in lieu of full funding for his department, so that it can implement the stunningly broad sweep of "executive actions" on immigration announced by the president during a nationally televised speech on November 20. He may think so, but it's not at all clear why the House should adopt that view given the executive branch usurpation of authorities granted to the legislature under Article I of the Constitution, and the undermining of an entire system of federal immigration laws. read more
The president has the authority to offer temporary relief from immigration removals.
He could end the controversial Secure Communities program.
He could also broaden the number of immigrants eligible for deferred action.
Digging for Statistical Nuggets in a Decade's Worth of Immigration Enforcement Data
In July of this year, the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics published an interesting paper entitled "Immigration Offenders in the Federal Justice System, 2010" by Mark Motivans, PhD. Despite the reference to "2010" in the title, the paper actually documents federal immigration enforcement statistics for 2000-2010. Although, as might be expected, it is written in the somewhat dry style favored by bureaucracies and academia, the report makes for very interesting reading. read more
California Governor Kills Sanctuary Bill
The bill that was the top priority for illegal alien advocates in California, the TRUST Act, was vetoed yesterday by Gov. Jerry Brown. This is clearly a setback for anti-enforcement activists nationwide, who had made this bill the centerpiece in their campaign against ICE's Secure Communities program, and who had hoped to inspire similar measures in other states. read more
The Cost of Responding to Faux Analysis, Part 2: Ignoring Inconvenient Truths That Detract from Your Hypothesis
_Author's Note: Following is the second of two blogs examining the report entitled "The Cost of Responding to Immigration Detainers in California — Preliminary Findings", issued on August 22, 2012, by the Justice Strategies organization. The first blog examined the hype and reaction surrounding release of the report to the media. This blog takes a look at the report itself and critically examines the analysis._ read more
