The Meaning of the Recent Flurry of Immigration Enforcement Efforts

As immigration reform heats up in Congress, immigration enforcement efforts continue to make headlines.  For example, USA Today ran (1) a front page story (here) on Friday about state and local law enforcement agencies across the country are teaming up with the federal government to gain the power to help enforce the immigration laws; and (2) a story (here) about the arrest of 69 people in raids on a temporary employment agency’s offices and places where it hired out undocumented, including the port of Baltimore. Earlier today, I poseted a story about the increased immigration detentions in Orange County.

One can only wonder what will happen to immigration enforcement will mean after the flurry of immigration reform proposals are acted upon one way or another.

KJ