NCLR: Immigration Enforcement Policy Failed

Release: Washington, D.C.

The National Council of La Raza is reporting that, on April 2nd, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the latest immigration program, which relied on local and state enforcement of immigration laws, have repeatedly violated the rights of the accused, both of citizenship and those without documentation, and the lack of accountability that goes into these abuses. The NCLR has responded with an added fervor to end the program.

In short, they are calling for a more just kind of policy, one that will not, as Clarissa Martínez De Castro, NCLR Director of Immigration and National Campaigns puts it, "deport our way to a solution to our broken immigration system."

Instead, the hope that the DHS, Congress and the President will find a way to address the immigration policy without violating the rights of all people.

They are now making plans to officially recommend to all local law enforcement agencies who rely on Program 287(g), the program in question, that all actions on this program's account be terminated on the grounds of lack of oversight and failure to achieve its intended goal.

The National Council of La Raza: INSPECTOR GENERAL RELEASES DAMNING REPORT ON IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM

Posted by: DAVID KILMARTIN