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October 09, 2009 DHS Revokes Arpaio's Authority to Enforce Illegal Immigration Laws According to the Department of Homeland Security, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will no longer have the authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants based solely on their immigration status. Succumbing to pressure from civil-rights, labor, religious and pro-immigrant groups that invited the Federal Governments attention DHS announced that claims of abuse of power and racial profiling have led DHS to re-think its 287(g) enforcement agreement the Maricopa County Sheriffs office had with ICE. It should be noted that DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano has a history of opposing state-local cooperation in immigration enforcement and seems intent on pushing the Administration's agenda to weaken any successful immigration enforcement program. During a press conference Tuesday Sheriff Arpaio stated that the decision by DHS is political, and also mentioned that he had no plans to stop his "crime suppression sweeps." Read all about it in this article in Examiner.com.
Sen. Vitter Wants Illegal Aliens Identified Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, has introduced an amendment to an appropriations bill that funds the Census Bureau and other government departments that would require the U.S. Census to always ask about respondents' citizenship and immigration status. Sen. Vitter said the amendment is "designed to help us identify illegal aliens, primarily to prevent states from counting them for the purposes of determining population levels, and other data associated with the Census." New America Media has the whole story in this article.
High School Dropouts Face Higher Imprisonment Rates According to a new study by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, about one in every 10 young male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention, compared with one in 35 young male high school graduates. In considering the close relationship between dropout rates and unemployment rates, the study found that 54 percent of dropouts ages 16 to 24 were jobless, compared with 32 percent for high school graduates of the same age, and 13 percent for those with a college degree. The statistics were worse for young African-American dropouts, whose unemployment rate last year was 69 percent, compared with 54 percent for whites and 47 percent for Hispanics. The unemployment rate among young Hispanics was lower, the report said, because included in that category were many illegal immigrants, who compete successfully for jobs with native-born youths. Incidentally, a Pew Hispanic Center analysis of data from the 2000 U.S. Census found that Only 8 percent of the nation's teens are foreign born, but nearly 25 percent of teen school dropouts were born outside the United States. You can read more details about the Center for Labor Market Studies report in this article by the New York Times.
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