Travis Packer
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Posts by Travis Packer
Border Issues, Border Solutions
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
July 23, 2010 - 8:31 am
Posted in Arizona, Border, Border Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Blog, Immigration and Customs Enforcement | No comments
Yesterday, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism held a hearing on Enhancing DHS’ Efforts to Disrupt Alien Smuggling across Our Borders. Witnesses from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and Terry Goddard, Attorney General for the State of Arizona all [...]
Secretary Solis Continues the Drum Beat for Immigration Reform, But Is Anyone Listening?
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
July 19, 2010 - 2:22 pm
Posted in Business, Dream Act, Economics, Employment, Immigration Law | No comments
Earlier today, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka discussed the complicated intersection of labor, immigration, and the United States economy. “The immigration system has always been important to the labor movement,” said Trumka. Both Secretary Solis and Trumka advocated for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR)—acknowledging the obvious economic benefits to all U.S. [...]
Department of Justice Attempts to Reassert Federal Authority Over Immigration Policy
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
July 6, 2010 - 2:02 pm
Posted in Arizona, Department of Justice, Immigration Blog, State and Local Immigration Law | No comments
Today, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against the state of Arizona in federal court. The lawsuit, prompted by passage of SB 1070 in the Arizona legislature, argues that federal law trumps the state statute and enforcing immigration law is a federal responsibility. The DOJ has requested a preliminary injunction to [...]
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Falsely Claims “Most Illegal Immigrants” are “Drug Mules”
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
June 28, 2010 - 12:58 pm
Posted in Arizona, Border, Border Enforcement, Immigration Blog, State and Local Immigration Law | No comments
Even as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) remains hard at work to find the wrong solution for a mythical problem, she seems to have time to spread information and make statements so ludicrous that calling them falsehoods seems too lenient. At a Republican gubernatorial primary debate last week, Brewer criticized her opponent’s statement that many [...]
CEOs and New York Mayor Make Economic Case for Immigration Reform
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
June 24, 2010 - 1:54 pm
Posted in Business, Economics, Immigration Blog | No comments
While comprehensive immigration reform looks to be stalled until the lame duck session or the beginning of the 112th Congress, chief executives of several major corporations and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are joining together to form a coalition, “Partnership for a New American Economy,” advocating for immigration reform. Bloomberg stated the group’s intent, [...]
Detention Reform Strikes Ire in the Heart of Senator Grassley
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
June 16, 2010 - 2:31 pm
Posted in Detention, Immigration Blog, Immigration Law, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton | No comments
Earlier this week, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wrote a misguided letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Assistant Secretary John Morton. The Senator complained to Secretary Morton about the possibility of ICE allowing low-risk detainees to wear recreational clothing, use the phone, and send emails. Grassley likened these to hotel amenities, complaining that they might [...]
DREAMing of Immigration Reform
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
June 10, 2010 - 1:24 pm
Posted in Immigration Blog, Legislation | No comments
Word has started to trickle down that the only immigration reform taking place this year will be of a piecemeal variety. According to The Hill, Senate Democrats are looking to focus on energy legislation over the next two months, leaving no room for comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). However, advocates are not giving up hope, stating [...]
More Detention Abuse Highlights Need for Federal Oversight
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
June 3, 2010 - 1:37 pm
Posted in Detention, Immigration Blog, Immigration and Customs Enforcement | No comments
Last week, the Associated Press reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is investigating allegations of sexual assault by a guard in one of their facilities on female detainees. The detainees, on their way to be deported, were groped while being patted down and at least one was propositioned for sex, according to ICE officials. [...]
Trio of Republican Border Enforcement Amendments Fail
originally posted by Travis Packer for Immigration Impact [click here]
May 27, 2010 - 10:55 am
Posted in Border Enforcement, Employment, Enforcement, Immigration Blog, Immigration Law, Legislation, Politics | No comments
Three Republican amendments to the Supplemental Appropriations Act (H.R. 4899) failed this morning. The amendments, which included proposals to ramp up border security spending from Senators McCain (AZ), Kyl (AZ), and Cornyn (TX), failed to garner the necessary sixty votes needed for passage. The Supplemental Appropriations Act is a broader bill that funds the troop [...]
Not All States Target Immigrants or the Slightly Suntanned
May 11, 2010 - 2:04 pm
Posted in Legislation, State and Local Immigration Law | No comments
Despite the commotion around Arizona’s SB 1070, a recent report shows that more laws expanding immigrants’ rights are being enacted than those contracting them. The Wilson Center’s study, Context Matters: Latino Immigrant Civic Engagement in Nine U.S. Cities, found that in 2007, 19 percent of 313 bills expanding immigrant rights were enacted and only 11 [...]