http://www.hispanictips.com Hispanic & Latino News Redefined - Empowering & Engaging Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:56:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/08/17/crackdown-on-smugglers-needed-chertoff-says/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/08/17/crackdown-on-smugglers-needed-chertoff-says/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:57:29 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/08/17/crackdown-on-smugglers-needed-chertoff-says/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/08/17/crackdown-on-smugglers-needed-chertoff-says/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/30/the-border-fence-folly-six-simple-reasons-the-border-fence-is-terrible-policy/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/30/the-border-fence-folly-six-simple-reasons-the-border-fence-is-terrible-policy/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:58:39 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/30/the-border-fence-folly-six-simple-reasons-the-border-fence-is-terrible-policy/ "In this political season, immigration is the issue that everyone's taking pains not to discuss. The presidential candidates are merely paying the same lip service to border security. Congress has all but abandoned comprehensive immigration reform, and the Bush administration continues to pile all their immigration-policy eggs in the border-security basket. But that doesn't mean nothing is happening. Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff, in an April trip to the U.S.-Mexico border, made clear his determination that 670 miles of border fence, already under construction in Arizona and California, be completed by the end of the year. The border fence project has faced embarrassments--illegal immigrants employed to build the wall, a "Virtual Fence" project that cannot distinguish humans and vehicles from livestock and bushes--but those setbacks pale in comparison to its fundamental flaws. Below, six simple reasons a fence spanning the U.S.-Mexico border is bad polic" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/30/the-border-fence-folly-six-simple-reasons-the-border-fence-is-terrible-policy/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/11/dhs-remarks-by-homeland-security-secretary-michael-chertoff-and-department-of-commerce-secretary-gutierrez-at-the-state-of-immigration-address/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/11/dhs-remarks-by-homeland-security-secretary-michael-chertoff-and-department-of-commerce-secretary-gutierrez-at-the-state-of-immigration-address/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:34:37 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/11/dhs-remarks-by-homeland-security-secretary-michael-chertoff-and-department-of-commerce-secretary-gutierrez-at-the-state-of-immigration-address/ HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/11/dhs-remarks-by-homeland-security-secretary-michael-chertoff-and-department-of-commerce-secretary-gutierrez-at-the-state-of-immigration-address/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/10/boeing-awarded-contract-on-border-fence-chertoff/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/10/boeing-awarded-contract-on-border-fence-chertoff/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:38:31 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/10/boeing-awarded-contract-on-border-fence-chertoff/ "The U.S. government has decided to award Boeing contracts for the construction of two sections of a high-tech fence to be built along the border with Mexico in Arizona, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday.

The two fence sections would be an "operational configuration" of a much-criticized 28-mile (45-km) section of "virtual fence" built by Boeing and tested earlier, Chertoff told a news conference.

He said the fence would include fixed towers, with radar sensors, remote control cameras, ground sensors and software linking border agents to give them a "common operating picture" of the areas they are enforcing." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/10/boeing-awarded-contract-on-border-fence-chertoff/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/02/wildlife-coalition-to-file-federal-suit-over-waiving-of-environmental-laws-for-border-fence/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/02/wildlife-coalition-to-file-federal-suit-over-waiving-of-environmental-laws-for-border-fence/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:09:39 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/02/wildlife-coalition-to-file-federal-suit-over-waiving-of-environmental-laws-for-border-fence/ "A coalition of wildlife protection groups will file a federal lawsuit Monday in El Paso challenging the Department of Homeland Security's authority to waive state and federal laws to build a border security fence.

The lawsuit by the Frontera Audubon Society, the Friends of the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge and the Friends of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge claims that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff violated the Constitution's separation of powers when he waived 36 federal environmental laws to speed up construction of the fence." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/06/02/wildlife-coalition-to-file-federal-suit-over-waiving-of-environmental-laws-for-border-fence/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/29/texas-cities-join-suit-against-mexico-border-fence/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/29/texas-cities-join-suit-against-mexico-border-fence/#comments Thu, 29 May 2008 15:42:37 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/29/texas-cities-join-suit-against-mexico-border-fence/ "Despite efforts by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to push ahead with erecting 670 miles of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border, even issuing waivers to bypass environmental concerns, a groundswell of opposition is growing - with two more Texas border communities joining in a lawsuit to halt the project.

City officials in El Paso and Presidio this week joined with the Texas Border Coalition (TBC) in a lawsuit charging that Homeland Security officials, including Mr. Chertoff, "blatantly ignored federal law in their zeal" to complete construction of the fence by year's end and failed to consult with property owners as promised." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/29/texas-cities-join-suit-against-mexico-border-fence/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/28/geraldo-rivera-secretary-chertoff-call-off-these-raids-politics-on-the-huffington-post/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/28/geraldo-rivera-secretary-chertoff-call-off-these-raids-politics-on-the-huffington-post/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 13:32:26 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/28/geraldo-rivera-secretary-chertoff-call-off-these-raids-politics-on-the-huffington-post/ "Driven by the most savage talk radio and cable news anti-immigrant propaganda campaign in our nation's history, the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed an unprecedented crackdown on undocumented workers. In an effort not seen since the panic unleashed by the Great Depression, federal law enforcement has been targeting technically illegal workers who have been long tolerated in industries like meat packing, poultry processing and agriculture. In the terror created, fruit trees are being cut down and fields lie fallow, for want of traditional workers.

Many hundreds of otherwise law abiding, hard working, family men and women have been arrested in recent weeks under circumstances more appropriate to operations targeting al Qaeda. With noise and fury, these heavily armed and armored SWAT teams from ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, are surrounding a particular plant, then with great quasi-military flourish sweeping in to arrest and handcuff the 'aliens', bring them en masse to a hearing, conviction and sentencing, all pending deportation. These completely overdone costume dramas are targeting cowering economic refugees just trying to feed their families. They would be ridiculed as overkill and posturing by any real soldier or cop." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/28/geraldo-rivera-secretary-chertoff-call-off-these-raids-politics-on-the-huffington-post/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/22/department-of-homeland-security-will-face-questions-on-care-of-detained-immigrants/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/22/department-of-homeland-security-will-face-questions-on-care-of-detained-immigrants/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 13:30:48 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/22/department-of-homeland-security-will-face-questions-on-care-of-detained-immigrants/ "Top lawmakers in Congress criticized the Department of Homeland Security yesterday for failing to provide adequate medical care to detained immigrants, and said they plan to demand explanations today from Secretary Michael Chertoff and Julie L. Myers, assistant secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/22/department-of-homeland-security-will-face-questions-on-care-of-detained-immigrants/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/22/border-agents-wont-slow-hurricane-evacuations-but-no-clarification-on-whether-or-not-illegal-immigrants-taken-to-shelters-during-a-hurricane-will-be-allowed-to-return-home-or-if-they-will-be-depor/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/22/border-agents-wont-slow-hurricane-evacuations-but-no-clarification-on-whether-or-not-illegal-immigrants-taken-to-shelters-during-a-hurricane-will-be-allowed-to-return-home-or-if-they-will-be-depor/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 16:27:59 +0000 Tomas http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/22/border-agents-wont-slow-hurricane-evacuations-but-no-clarification-on-whether-or-not-illegal-immigrants-taken-to-shelters-during-a-hurricane-will-be-allowed-to-return-home-or-if-they-will-be-depor/ "Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff clarified that federal border agents would not impede a hurricane evacuation from south Texas by checking fleeing residents' documents, diverting from plans confirmed by Border Patrol officials in the state only days earlier.

Speaking at a hurricane preparedness gathering Tuesday at FEMA headquarters in Washington, Chertoff said he wanted to "drive a stake through the heart of a misapprehension which is out there."

"In the event of an emergency, and the need for an evacuation, priority No. 1 by a country mile is the safe evacuation of people who are leaving the danger zone," Chertoff said. "Instructions to the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection are clear. They are to do nothing to impede a safe and speedy evacuation of a danger zone."" HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/22/border-agents-wont-slow-hurricane-evacuations-but-no-clarification-on-whether-or-not-illegal-immigrants-taken-to-shelters-during-a-hurricane-will-be-allowed-to-return-home-or-if-they-will-be-depor/feed/ 0 http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/21/homeland-security-stands-by-its-fence-great-graphic-from-the-ny-times-as-well/ http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/21/homeland-security-stands-by-its-fence-great-graphic-from-the-ny-times-as-well/#comments Wed, 21 May 2008 13:21:56 +0000 Tomas "As the Department of Homeland Security pushes to complete 670 miles of fencing along the Mexican border by the end of this year, it is confronting the sharpest resistance yet while conceding that physical barriers alone do not stop illegal crossings." HispanicTips.com - A Blogante News Service For, From & About Hispanics & Latinos]]> http://www.hispanictips.com/2008/05/21/homeland-security-stands-by-its-fence-great-graphic-from-the-ny-times-as-well/feed/ 0