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President’s Budget Seeks Cuts in Immigration Enforcement

Last week President Obama renewed his effort to undermine immigration enforcement by releasing a budget for FY 2013 that cuts funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and important programs it oversees. (See DHS Budget in Brief FY2013) The President’s FY 2013 budget proposes cutting ICE, the nation’s chief immigration enforcement agency, by four percent. It also proposes cutting the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC)—the agency within DHS that trains approximately 90 federal law enforcement agencies, including ICE agents—by five percent.

In addition to cutting ICE’s overall budget, the President’s FY 2013 budget specifically proposes cutting the 287(g) federal-local law enforcement program by $17 million. The budget describes what is essentially a phase out of the 287(g) program in favor of the expansion of Secure Communities, calling the cut a “realignment and reduction of 287(g)” that will “reduce[] the 287(g) program” as ICE implements Secure Communities nationwide. (Id. at 101) ICE plans to implement the cuts by “discontinuing the least productive 287(g) task force agreements in those jurisdictions where Secure Communities is already in place and …suspend[ing] consideration of any requests for new 287(g) task forces. (Id. at 16)

DHS justifies the cut to this important program by stating that Secure Communities is “more cost effective” than 287(g). (Id. at 101) However this justification ignores that the 287(g) program and Secure Communities work in fundamentally different ways. The 287(g) program trains local law enforcement officers to identify whether an individual is an alien, and if so, whether that alien is lawfully present. These 287(g)-trained officers may work either in a local jail or on a law enforcement task force out in the community. (See ICE 287(g) Fact Sheet)

Meanwhile, Secure Communities functions by taking digital fingerprint scans of individuals booked at a local jail house and bouncing those electronic files against the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration database at the same time the prints are sent to the FBI for a criminal background check. (See Secure Communities webpage) If there is a hit, DHS automatically relays that information to the local law enforcement agency and the local ICE office, which may place a detainer on the alien. (Id.) While Secure Communities is an efficient and effective program, it only works to identify an alien if the alien’s fingerprints are already in the DHS immigration database. Aliens who have illegally entered the U.S. and have not yet come in contact with law enforcement will not have their fingerprints in the system, nor will illegal aliens who have come into contact with the system before the Secure Communities program was operational.

From a broader perspective, the proposed cut to the 287(g) program represents the Obama Administration’s unrelenting assault on local law enforcement agencies that wish to enforce federal immigration laws. The Administration has taken numerous steps to curb state and local enforcement of immigration laws, including the extraordinary step of suing Arizona, Alabama, and South Carolina to block the implementation of their state immigration enforcement laws. The proposed cut also signals an effort by the Obama Administration to circumvent Congressional intent by gradually starving a program that Congress enacted into law (the name 287(g) referring to the section where the program can be found in the Immigration and Nationality Act).

This week, various Committees in the House began to hold hearings on the Obama Administration’s FY 2013 budget. Over the next few months, Members will decide which portions of the Administration’s recommendations to adopt or reject through the passage of spending (appropriations) bills.

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House Appropriators Question Administration’s Priorities

Members of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee grilled Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Wednesday during a 2013 budget hearing on her department’s improper utilization of Congressionally-approved funds.

In his opening statement, Subcommittee Chair Robert Aderholt (R-AL) admonished Secretary Napolitano for claiming the department lacks resources sufficient to enforce U.S. immigration law as a way to push the Administration’s amnesty agenda. “[T]his Administration chooses to apply the term ‘priorities’ as a convenient excuse to avoid enforcing our immigration laws and ignore legislative mandates….” he said. (Rep. Aderholt Opening Statement, Feb. 15, 2012)

Chairman Aderholt also questioned the Department’s decision to cease rolling out Secure Communities in his home state of Alabama as retaliation for the State’s immigration enforcement law, H.B. 56. (Bloomberg Government Transcript, Feb. 16, 2011; see also FAIR Legislative Update, Jan. 23, 2012) He pointed out that Secure Communities is fully deployed in two other states the Administration is suing over their immigration enforcement laws, telling Napolitano, “The safety of Alabamans is certainly not a lesser concern….” (Bloomberg Government Transcript, Feb. 16, 2012) The Secretary nonetheless stood by her decision to postpone implementation of the program designed to detect criminal illegal aliens until the Justice Department’s lawsuit against the State is fully litigated before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. (Id.)

Several members echoed Chairman Aderholt’s concerns over the Administration’s refusal to enforce U.S. immigration laws. Chair of the full House Appropriations Committee, Hal Rogers (R-KY), criticized the Obama Administration for “turning a blind eye” to illegal aliens who had not committed additional crimes and likened the policy to a form of amnesty. To this charge, Napolitano merely responded that the term “amnesty” is “way too overused with respect to immigration.” (Id.)

Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) challenged Napolitano on circumventing Congressional intent by selectively enforcing the law. He asked Secretary Napolitano which categories of illegal aliens the Department refuses to prosecute. When Secretary Napolitano described those who would qualify for amnesty under the failed DREAM Act, he pointed out to her that Congress had already expressly rejected such an amnesty. You are describing “essentially those people defined by the DREAM Act, which did not pass Congress,” he scolded her. (Id.) “It’s not the law, but you’re making it the law.” (Id.)

Later that day Secretary Napolitano also appeared before the House Homeland Security Committee. There, members of the committee not only voiced objections to the President’s administrative amnesty program, but also questioned the Secretary about the Administration’s proposed cuts to the 287(g) program.

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) expressed dismay over the Department’s decision to reduce funding to the program by 25 percent. The “287(g) program has been just an outstanding force multiplier and [is] relatively inexpensive… So, I'd hate to see no additional communities be added,” he said. (Bloomberg Government Transcript, Feb. 16, 2012) Ignoring critical differences between the 287(g) and Secure Communities programs, Secretary Napolitano responded that the cuts were due to the Administration’s plans to deploy Secure Communities nationwide by 2013 and that Secure Communities is the Administration’s “preferred” program for identifying illegal aliens. (Id.)Secure Communities identifies aliens who have fingerprints on file with the Department of Homeland Security upon police booking them into jail, whereas 287(g) trains officers on how to identify illegal aliens.

Taking it one step further, Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) focused not just on proposed cuts to the program’s funding, but on the Administration’s attempts to eliminate it entirely. “Under the administration, not one 287(g) task force application [] has been approved,” he said. (Id.) Admitting the 287(g) program’s effectiveness, Secretary Napolitano again responded that Secure Communities was the Administration’s preferred program, claiming that it helps the Department “target appropriately the population that [it] want[s] to prioritize in removal, which are criminal aliens.” (Id.)