U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

While the enforcement of immigration is a U.S. priority, the policy does not stay true to its words of keeping undesirable people out while encouraging immigration from desirable ones. While many people have a difference of opinion on immigration reform based on information, we have seen or heard about in the news or newspaper articles. That we do or do not agree. For years, there has always been the question of why certain immigrate can get here and others are not. Does the border do its job of…

the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is: To promote homeland security and public safety through the criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs, trade and immigration. ICE executes its mission through the enforcement of more than 400 federal statutes, and focuses on smart immigration enforcement, preventing terrorism and combating the illegal movement of people and trade. Subsequently, ICE and Mexico have a complicated relationship since the U.S…

remove individuals who overstay their visa, violate their terms of admission, and commit crimes. Those are the best ways to find immigrants in the U.S. The cost of the U.S. customs and Border Protection are rapidly increasing,“The U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement budgets increased by nearly 80 percent to $17.1 billion in FY 2010, from $9.5 billion in FY 2005”(Fitz). But the net undocumented immigrants are still increasing over time from 10.5 billion to…

Federal agencies have led law enforcement efforts against computer crime since these agencies hold the technical expertise and political influence to gather significant financial and operational resources at the national level. Thus, these agencies have progressively reorganized in an attempt to channel resources directly at preventing digital crimes and capturing computer criminals, including the creation of special sections within these organizations, employing of new personnel who have…

Center, an immigration family detention center in Pennsylvania is one of the facilities where mothers and children are detained together in order to keep children with their mothers while they wait for their asylum cases to be heard. But a three-year-old boy from El Salvador was held for three days without his mother under the supervision of the staff at the detention center. He was later released into his grandmother’s care. Under a joint operation named Project Red II, between the U.S.…

The increase in violence in association with drugs has raised the eyebrows of several politicians in regards to immigration laws. In 2006 Time Magazine took a poll on what the American population thinks about immigration and 82% of the populations concluded that the United States Government isn't doing enough to prevent the mass migration from the south. Although immigration and terrorism do not have a direct correlation with one another, the rise in drug trafficking cases has caused the general…

and drug smugglers, but also from the illegal immigrants. All these recurring activities have sparked the United States to secure its borders against illegal immigrants and terrorism by creating two immigration enforcement agencies: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the year 2003. ‘Border Patrol Nation’ by Todd Miller is a classic example of the Border Patrol Agency’s day to day activities and work culture. Through the structure…

Immigration and Criminal Justice Ziyada Alzhani Kingsborough Community College Although the issue of immigration policy has been at the center of political debates, largely discussed in the media and newspapers, no one have yet found a solution to this ill-defined problem, that would comply with the America’s core values. While I think the immigration…

There are critical dates in United States immigration. Initially, United States immigration law was the Naturalization Act of 1790. The Naturalization Act determined that "any outsider, being a free white individual, might be confessed to wind up a US citizen". In 1875, the Supreme Court decided that the Federal Government is in charge of managing US immigration. Then there was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which barred certain laborers from immigrating to the United States. Somewhere…

In addition, to my initial and subsequent training at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) which covered U.S. Code: Title 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY, U.S. Code: Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, statutes governing immigration law in the Immigration Nationality Act (INA), Administrative Decisions from the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), handbooks, guides and policy memorandum used in performing my duties. In addition, I have thirty plus years of practical hands on…