Government Agencies
Homeland Security Investigations- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the largest criminal investigative unit of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the second largest criminal investigative agency in the U.S. What ICE does is try and fight against terrorist groups who threaten national security. A large part of ICE is aimed at trying to stop large human smuggling rings. ICE works with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to attempt and stop the smuggling rings that are located along the U.S. borders. Their efforts extend beyond the actual smugglers and also targets business that benefit from hiring illegal immigrants. Aside from targeting those who smuggle people illegally into the United States, ICE also aims towards stopping those that smuggle in illegal contraband to the United States, like weapons and drugs for instance. James Dinkins is the Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security for ICE.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the largest criminal investigative unit of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the second largest criminal investigative agency in the U.S. What ICE does is try and fight against terrorist groups who threaten national security. A large part of ICE is aimed at trying to stop large human smuggling rings. ICE works with U.S. Customs and Border Protection to attempt and stop the smuggling rings that are located along the U.S. borders. Their efforts extend beyond the actual smugglers and also targets business that benefit from hiring illegal immigrants. Aside from targeting those who smuggle people illegally into the United States, ICE also aims towards stopping those that smuggle in illegal contraband to the United States, like weapons and drugs for instance. James Dinkins is the Executive Associate Director of Homeland Security for ICE.
Congressional Committee
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
This is the chief oversight committee of the U.S. Senate. Joe Lieberman is the Democratic chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for the majority, and the ranking member is Carl Levin. Representing the minority would be Sussan Collins and as the second in line, Tom Coburn. The subcommittee that would deal with my political issue is the Subcommittee on Financial Management, Government Information and International Security. This subcommittee deals with seeing the statistics of the effectiveness of present national security. It also deals with collecting the social and economic statistics of the United States. This may seem like a bit of a long shot connecting it with my political issue of illegal immigration in the workforce, however if their is a correlation between national security and economic statistics their may be a connection with the increase of illegal immigrants and an economical growth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Homeland_Security_Subcommittee_on_Federal_Financial_Management,_Government_Information_and_International_Security
This is the chief oversight committee of the U.S. Senate. Joe Lieberman is the Democratic chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs for the majority, and the ranking member is Carl Levin. Representing the minority would be Sussan Collins and as the second in line, Tom Coburn. The subcommittee that would deal with my political issue is the Subcommittee on Financial Management, Government Information and International Security. This subcommittee deals with seeing the statistics of the effectiveness of present national security. It also deals with collecting the social and economic statistics of the United States. This may seem like a bit of a long shot connecting it with my political issue of illegal immigration in the workforce, however if their is a correlation between national security and economic statistics their may be a connection with the increase of illegal immigrants and an economical growth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Homeland_Security_Subcommittee_on_Federal_Financial_Management,_Government_Information_and_International_Security
Interest Group
The interest group is called the National Council of La Raza (NCLR). What this organization strives for is to inform the immigrants and more specifically the Mexican American or any Latino immigrants the updates in the immigrant reform act, the DREAM Act, in the naturalization process, etc. It also tries to unmask those work locations in which they are abusing desperate immigrants by paying them below the minimum wage, exploiting them with excessive physical labor and so on. NCLR tries to find ways to unite the Latin community to the rest of the community, to show others that these illegal aliens as they are called are trying to make a living as is everyone else and show them that they are not bad people. Janet Murjia is the president and CEO of this wonderful and well known organization. What this organization tries to do is keep the immigrants in the United States informed on how they may become legal citizens and fight for their rights to usure that they are being treated fairly and not abused just because of their legal status here.