User:Buster7/LEITF

Law Enforcement Immigration Task Force

 * Santa Ana, California
 * Letter to Senators
 * "I didn't sign it!"


 * LEITF...begun in 2015


 * Police chiefs argue that "forcing local police to partake in immigration enforcement would damage trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve".

Presidential Executive Order #13768 of January 25, 2017

 * Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States
 * AILA=American Immigration Lawyers Association

ICE:Immigration and Customs Enforcement

 * (BEST) Investigate illegal movement of people and goods

Articles

 * WaPo/3/1/Police chiefs’ immigration task force outlines opposition to Trump policy
 * Police chiefs from around the country have issued a letter to the effect that law enforcement at the local level should not participate in immigration enforcement and should not be penalized if the inmstitute “sanctuary” immigration policies.


 * WaPo/1/26 Big city police chiefs, mayors troubled by Trump immigration order, police union and sheriffs untroubled

Big cities defiant....

 * DC and other ‘sanctuary cities’ defiant in the face of Trump’s threats

Yea or Nay

 * FOP....Fraternal Order of Police officers union...September 16 2016 FOP endorses Trump ...met w/ Trump after election..."untroubled" @ Big city police chiefs
 * NSA....National Sheriffs Association..."hearty endorsement" @ Big city police chiefs
 * USCM...United States Conference of Mayors... (?)
 * IACP...International Association of Mayors...met w/ Trump transition team (when?)...no comment yet

Secure Communities Program

 * a Trump initiative
 * commissioned under the Bush administration
 * expands information sharing between local police and federal immigration agencies.
 * WH administration pushed for renewed focus on 287(g) agreements
 * 287(g) permits local police officers to carry out immigration enforcement (according to a Guardian publication)

History

 * Immigrant Servants Database
 * Asian-Nation: Early Asian Immigration to the U.S.
 * Irish Catholic Immigration to America
 * Scotch-Irish Immigration to Colonial America
 * Immigration Archives of Historical Documents, Articles, and Immigrants

Immigration policy

 * Brookings Institution: Immigration Policy
 * Urban Institute: Immigration Studies
 * The Real Political Purpose of the ICE Raids from Dollars & Sense
 * Federation for American Immigration Reform

Current immigration

 * U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
 * U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
 * Cornell University's Legal Information Institute: Immigration