WEEKLY

FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 4, 2013

• White House Domestic Policy Director Insisted 1986 Amnesty Wasn’t Big Enough
• Obama Administration Sets Free over 2,000 Illegal Aliens, Uses Sequester to Further Amnesty Agenda
• New York City to Ignore ICE Detainers and Undermine Secure Communities
• Pro-Amnesty GOP Senators Meet with Obama
• Democrats, GOP Advocate Expanding Agricultural Guest Worker Programs
• Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Highlights E-Verify's Effectiveness
• House Homeland Security Subcommittee Holds Border Security Hearing
• GAO: Obama Administration has no Official Metrics to Measure Border Security; Will Not Adopt Any until Late 2013

White House Domestic Policy Director Insisted 1986 Amnesty Wasn’t Big Enough In the Obama Administration, Cecilia Munoz coordinates domestic policy, including immigration.  Learn what Munoz advocated while working the National Council of La Raza. Click here to read the full article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Obama Administration Sets Free over 2,000 Illegal Aliens, Uses Sequester to Further Amnesty Agenda After news leaked through several sources, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed last week they have been releasing illegal aliens in federal custody in order to satisfy cuts under the sequester. Click here to read the article.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York City to Ignore ICE Detainers and Undermine Secure Communities On February 27, the New York City Council passed two measures, both by a vote of 40-7, to further obstruct immigration enforcement. The two laws put further restrictions in place for the NYC Department of Corrections to report immigration detainers to federal authorities.  Click here to read the full article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pro-Amnesty GOP Senators Meet with Obama Pro-amnesty "Gang of Eight" Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) met with President Obama and Vice President Biden last Tuesday at the White House to discuss comprehensive immigration reform.  Click here to read the full article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democrats, GOP Advocate Expanding Agricultural Guest Worker Programs During a House Immigration Subcommittee hearing last Tuesday, some key Democrats and Republicans found common ground regarding our nation's agricultural guest worker system.  Members from both sides of the aisle used adjectives such as "broken," "cumbersome," and "flawed," and expressed their desire to make changes to the current H-2A guest worker program. Click here to read the full article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Immigration Subcommittee Hearing Highlights E-Verify’s Effectiveness In a hearing last week on E-Verify, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) highlighted the importance of a functional workplace enforcement tool in his opening remarks and declared that E-Verify was a critical component of the "enforcement solution." Click here to read the full article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . House Homeland Security Subcommittee Holds Border Security Hearing Last week, the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security held a hearing examining border security. From the hearing’s outset, the divide between Members of Congress about the role of enforcement in immigration reform was clear. Click here to read the full article. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GAO: Obama Administration has no Official Metrics to Measure Border Security Last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report stating that the Department of Homeland Security has no official metrics in place to measure whether the border is secure and has no plans to adopt any such metrics until late this year. Click here to read the full article.