Silent Raids Part of “Enforcement Now, Enforcement Forever” Policy of the Obama Administration

With a few variations, the Obama administration continues to follow the enforcement-oriented immigration policies of the last days of the Bush administration.  Over the past 18 months, the President has bolstered enforcement at every turn, including deploying the National Guard to the border (in the drug war not for immigration purpoises, he says).  Julia Preston of the N.Y. Times now reports that “The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms with a quieter enforcement strategy: sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers.”

The President continues to voice support for comprehensive immigration reform.  But will that ever come?  Or will we simply see more and more enforcement and no reform as occurred in the Bush administration?

KJ