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)

External links

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• Immigration Archives of Historical Documents, Articles, and Immigrants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