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	<title>Security Debrief - a blog of homeland security news and analysis &#187; Victor Cerda</title>
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		<title>A Matter of Timing? Obama Administration Poised to Address Immigration Reform in May</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/04/10/obama-administration-poised-to-address-immigration-in-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on an article in today's New York Times, the Administration may begin sharing its views and strategy on implementing immigration reform as early as May.  One can already envision the pro- and  anti-immigration fronts mobilizing, in preparation for another drama-filled showing of the national divide on this issue.]]></description>
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		<title>E-Verify Endorsement in Obama Budget?</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/02/26/e-verify-endorsement-in-obama-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/02/26/e-verify-endorsement-in-obama-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While DHS officials have been reluctant to provide details on the future of DHS’ E-Verify in the early stages of the Administration, President Obama’s just released “A New Era of Responsibility” outlining the President’s FY 2010 Federal Budget vision may provide an early indicator of the Administration’s support for DHS program.]]></description>
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		<title>DHS I-9 Transition Pains</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/02/05/dhs-i-9-transition-pains/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/02/05/dhs-i-9-transition-pains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration & Visa Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears DHS transition pains have reared their head in the obscure land of I-9s, resulting in the last minute postponement of a new revised Form I-9 that was scheduled to take effect this past Monday, February 2, 2009. This week, however, many employers proceed with confusion while many others will be using the wrong Form I-9. ]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Contractors Get Additional Reprieve While Obama Administration Ponders Future of E-Verify</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/02/01/federal-contractors-get-additional-reprieve-while-obama-administration-ponders-future-of-e-verify/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/02/01/federal-contractors-get-additional-reprieve-while-obama-administration-ponders-future-of-e-verify/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the honeymoon period for the new Administration fades, so too does the ability to avoid the proverbial third rail called immigration.  The decision to further postpone implementation of the E-Verify rule marks one of the first decisions regarding immigration that the Obama Administration has taken.]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender on the Immigration Enforcement Front – Or a Case of Hot Potato?</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/01/14/surrender-on-the-immigration-enforcement-front-or-a-case-of-hot-potato/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2009/01/14/surrender-on-the-immigration-enforcement-front-or-a-case-of-hot-potato/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Homeland Security Industry & Private Sector]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Congress’ failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform, the Administration has stepped up enforcement activities against employers, possibly in the hope that it would spur compromise and further consideration of immigration reform. These efforts over the past two years have resulted in impressive Department of Homeland Security operations.]]></description>
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		<title>Chertoff, a cleaning company and the immigration blame game</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/12/11/chertoff-a-cleaning-company-and-the-immigration-blame-game/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/12/11/chertoff-a-cleaning-company-and-the-immigration-blame-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Border Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Washington Post has a startling revelation that Consistent Cleaning Services, a local cleaning contractor, may have assigned undocumented employees to work at DHS Secretary Chertoff’s home. This was done apparently after the company assured the Chertoffs that the workers had legal status. Even more startling is the company owner’s tact to go to the Washington Post after being investigated and fined by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in what can only be viewed as a desperate attempt to be excused for his own failure to comply with the basic requirements of immigration law.]]></description>
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		<title>Raising the Stakes in Immigration Enforcement Poker</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/10/20/raising-the-stakes-in-immigration-enforcement-poker/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/10/20/raising-the-stakes-in-immigration-enforcement-poker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While much attention has been paid to the imploding U.S. economy, DHS’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) applied its own version of inflation to the ‘cost of the doing business’ by seeking for the first time the debarment of seven companies from federal contracting opportunities. The Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) provide that contractors may be considered for debarment if they have been found to have either knowingly hire an unauthorized worker or to continue to employ an alien who is or becomes unauthorized.]]></description>
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		<title>A Hurricane Ike Time-Out on Immigration Enforcement &#8211; The Right Choice</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/09/12/a-hurricane-ike-time-out-on-immigration-enforcement-the-right-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/09/12/a-hurricane-ike-time-out-on-immigration-enforcement-the-right-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration & Visa Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following recent months of aggressive immigration enforcement by DHS, it may surprise some that it would announce a time-out in immigration enforcement.  Yet, DHS properly did that when it announced today that it would cease enforcement operations in the Texas regions that are implementing mandatory evacuations in anticipation of Hurricane Ike's arrival.  In logically exercising its law enforcement discretion, DHS announced that there would be "no DHS immigration enforcement operations associated with evacuations and sheltering."  And this makes sense.  ]]></description>
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		<title>DHS: Throwing the Gauntlet at Employers &amp; Undocumented Workers</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/08/28/dhs-throwing-the-gauntlet-at-employers-undocumented-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/08/28/dhs-throwing-the-gauntlet-at-employers-undocumented-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration & Visa Policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If there was any lingering doubts on whether DHS and ICE were committed to aggressively enforcing immigration laws at the workplace, ICE’s worksite enforcement operation at Howard Industries resulting in almost 600 arrests should eliminate them. The 600 arrests marks the largest historical arrest total at a single worksite, exceeding the recent record of 400 set at Agriprocessors in Iowa just three month ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Why ICE’s Scheduled Departure program Will Continue to Fail</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/08/25/why-ice-scheduled-departure-and-any-immigration-honor-system-will-continue-to-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/08/25/why-ice-scheduled-departure-and-any-immigration-honor-system-will-continue-to-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Border Security]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/?p=738</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ICE's Scheduled Departure program -- or any voluntary immigration deportation program -- will fail until Congress reforms immigration law to provide some incentive for illegal immigrants to voluntarily participate. As it stands, Congress has created incentives for just the opposite.]]></description>
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		<title>H1-B April Madness:  Sorry, Only One Lottery Ticket Per Employee</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/03/20/h1-b-april-madness-sorry-only-one-lottery-ticket-per-employee/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/03/20/h1-b-april-madness-sorry-only-one-lottery-ticket-per-employee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Immigration & Visa Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Across the country there is significant anxiety building up in anticipation of the latest release of a prized commodity.   No, I am not talking about the latest version of the Apple I-Phone or the latest edition of the X-Box.   It is bigger than that.  And you will not see the throngs of people lining up around the block like you saw for tickets to the March Madness Tournament or the Hannah Montana concert.  Rather, on April 1, 2008 you will see a mass rush of U.S. employers to the nearest U.S. Post Office or Federal Express store as they flail away to get their H-1B applications to DHS.]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Grow Up &#8211; DHS Advances on Border Security and the 9/11 Commission Recommendations</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/01/22/time-to-grow-up-dhs-advances-on-border-security-and-the-911-commission-recommendations/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2008/01/22/time-to-grow-up-dhs-advances-on-border-security-and-the-911-commission-recommendations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of January 31, 2008, all individuals seeking to enter the U.S. at land borders will have to present documentary proof of citizenship.  Until this change in policy takes effect, any individual in the Western Hemisphere can enter the United States by attesting they are a United States citizen and presenting a driver’s license.  This approach places entry into our country into the realm of the honor system – a concept that has failed in our immigration policies - and relegated DHS Inspectors to the realm of bartenders attempting to distinguish a phony driver’s license from a real one. ]]></description>
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		<title>The DHS Front Against Illegal Immigration Moves to the No Match Zone</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2007/12/11/the-dhs-front-against-illegal-immigration-moves-to-the-no-match-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2007/12/11/the-dhs-front-against-illegal-immigration-moves-to-the-no-match-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few years, the SSA has issued practically useless notifications to employers advising employers that there were some discrepancies between an employee’s social security number and their biographic information. The main question from employers receiving such letters was “… and you want us to do what about this?” The notices did not direct employers to take any action, and frankly were a fine example of a bureaucratic SSA hot-potato game.]]></description>
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		<title>To Issue or Not to Issue…the Question of Issuing Driver’s Licenses to Illegal Immigrants Hits the Presidential Campaigns</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2007/11/13/drivers-licence-immigrants-presidential-election/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2007/11/13/drivers-licence-immigrants-presidential-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Border Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration & Visa Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Spitzer’s grenade in the form of his proposal to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants landed square in the middle of the Presidential Campaign recently, resulting in mixed responses and informative insight on how the candidates view immigration as an issue of national security.]]></description>
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		<title>DHS-Gov. Spitzer Showdown At The Real ID Corral … and Gov. Spitzer Blinks</title>
		<link>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2007/11/04/new-york-drivers-license/</link>
		<comments>http://securitydebrief.adfero.com/2007/11/04/new-york-drivers-license/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Victor Cerda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Border Security]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 21st, New York Governor Spitzer’s unexpectedly announced that New York would issue driver’s licenses to illegal aliens - signaling the latest challenge to the REAL ID law. Unbeknownst to Gov. Spitzer at that time, his brazen proclamation would wither under the intense and ruthless national immigration debate. Gov. Spitzer immediately found himself under siege not only within the State of New York, but also from a large and vocal national constituency.]]></description>
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