U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. ICE's stated mission is to protect the United States from cross-border crime and undocumented immigration that threaten national security and public safety.
Janet Ann Napolitano is an American politician,lawyer,and academic administrator. She served as president of the University of California from 2013 to 2020,on the faculty at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California,Berkeley since 2015,the United States secretary of homeland security from 2009 to 2013,and the 21st governor of Arizona from 2003 to 2009. Napolitano also served as Chairwoman of the National Governors Association for the 2006–2007 cycle,becoming the first woman to do so.
Reforming the immigration policy of the United States is a subject of political discourse and contention. Immigration has played an essential part in American history,as except for the Native Americans,everyone in the United States is descended from people who migrated to the United States. Some claim that the United States maintains the world's most liberal immigration policy.
Illegal immigration,or unauthorized immigration,occurs when foreign nationals,known as aliens,violate US immigration laws by entering the United States unlawfully,or by lawfully entering but then remaining after the expiration of their visas,parole or temporary protected status.
Kenneth Thomas "Cooch”Cuccinelli II is an American lawyer and politician who served as the senior official performing the duties of the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he also served as the Principal Deputy and Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and was Attorney General of Virginia from 2010 to 2014.
The United States government holds tens of thousands of immigrants in detention under the control of Customs and Border Protection and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Secure Communities is a data-sharing program that relies on coordination between federal,state,and local law enforcement agencies. The program was designed to "check the immigration status of every single person arrested by local police anywhere in the country". As part of the program,fingerprints that are taken upon arrest,which are traditionally forwarded to the FBI,are then also forwarded to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If these finger prints match the DHS's Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT),then the ICE district office decides whether or not to issue a detainer request which can include requesting that the person be detained for up to 48 hours (I-247D),or a request for ICE to be notified upon their release (I-247N).
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a United States immigration policy that allows some individuals who,on June 15,2012,were physically present in the United States with no lawful immigration status after having entered the country as children at least five years earlier,to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and to be eligible for an employment authorization document.
Deportation and removal from the United States occurs when the U.S. government orders a person to leave the country. In fiscal year 2014,Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted 315,943 removals. Criteria for deportations are set out in 8 U.S.C. § 1227.
Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA),sometimes called Deferred Action for Parental Accountability,was a planned United States immigration policy to grant deferred action status to certain undocumented immigrants who have lived in the United States since 2010 and have children who are either American citizens or lawful permanent residents. It was prevented from going into effect. Deferred action would not be legal status but would come with a three-year renewable employment authorization document and exemption from deportation. DAPA was a presidential executive action,not a law passed by Congress.
United States v. Texas,579 U.S. ___ (2016),is a United States Supreme Court case regarding the constitutionality of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program.
The Priority Enforcement Program is a program by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),the agency responsible for immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States,under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). PEP was an ICE program that worked with state and local law enforcement to identify illegal aliens who come in contact with state or local law enforcement,and remove those who are removable. PEP was announced by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson in a November 20,2014 memo as a replacement for Secure Communities (S-COMM). It builds on an updated list of immigration enforcement priorities released in another memo by Johnson issued on the same day.
Immigration policy,including illegal immigration to the United States,was a signature issue of former U.S. president Donald Trump's presidential campaign,and his proposed reforms and remarks about this issue generated much publicity. Trump has repeatedly said that illegal immigrants are criminals.
Thomas Douglas Homan is an American former police officer,immigration official,and political commentator who served during the Obama administration,and will have served in both Trump administrations. He served as acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from January 30,2017,to June 29,2018.
State of New York,et al. v. Trump et al. is an ongoing lawsuit against the rescission implemented by the Trump administration of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. At issue are Fifth Amendment protections of due process,information use,and equal protection.
Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California,591 U.S. 1 (2020),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held by a 5–4 vote that a 2017 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) order to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program was "arbitrary and capricious" under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and reversed the order.
The family separation policy under the first Trump administration was a controversial immigration enforcement strategy implemented in the United States from 2017 to 2018,aimed at deterring illegal immigration by separating migrant children from their parents or guardians. The policy,presented to the public as a "zero tolerance" approach,was intended to encourage tougher legislation and discourage unauthorized crossings. In some cases,families following the legal procedure to apply for asylum at official border crossings were also separated. Under the policy,federal authorities separated children and infants from parents or guardians with whom they had entered the US. The adults were prosecuted and held in federal jails or deported,and the children were placed under the supervision of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Prior to their transfer to HHS,some children spent three weeks or more in overcrowded border control centers,where they reported minimal food,no access to clean clothes or bathing facilities,and no adult caretakers;girls as young as ten were taking care of younger children.
The immigration policy of American President Joseph Biden initially focused on reversing many of the immigration policies of the previous Trump administration,before implementing stricter enforcement mechanisms later in his term.
The Director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a civilian official in the United States Department of Homeland Security. During July 2010 the position's title was changed from Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
Ed Gonzalez is an American law enforcement officer and has served as the 30th sheriff of Harris County,Texas,since January 2017. Gonzalez was the nominee for director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement until he withdrew the nomination in June 2022.
