Government Security News July 2016 Digital Edition
Government Security News, founded in 2001 shortly after 9/11, is a news and feature publication covering Homeland Security and Defense. It is read by government executives in federal, state, county, municipal agencies as well as technology vendors and service personnel in Law Enforcement, Airport and Aviation Security, Border Security and Immigration, Maritime and Port Security, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Counter-Terrorism, IT and Cybersecurity and all other branches of Government and the Military. In addition to its daily, weekly and monthly publications and newsletters, Government Security News also operates two awards programs that are well-respected in the U.S. and Internationally.
Government Security News, founded in 2001 shortly after 9/11, is a news and feature publication covering Homeland Security and Defense. It is read by government executives in federal, state, county, municipal agencies as well as technology vendors and service personnel in Law Enforcement, Airport and Aviation Security, Border Security and Immigration, Maritime and Port Security, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Counter-Terrorism, IT and Cybersecurity and all other branches of Government and the Military. In addition to its daily, weekly and monthly publications and newsletters, Government Security News also operates two awards programs that are well-respected in the U.S. and Internationally.
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Immigration and Border <strong>Security</strong><br />
Senate rejects two anti-immigrant bills before going<br />
out on recess<br />
By Joshua Breisblatt<br />
30<br />
Photo: Nicolas Raymond<br />
Senate defeats cloture on motions<br />
to proceed—a motion to begin debate—on<br />
two “Sanctuary City” bills<br />
sponsored by Senator Pat Toomey<br />
(R-PA) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-<br />
TX). Both bills take an enforcement-only<br />
approach to immigration<br />
reform and fail to address the<br />
nation’s outdated immigration laws<br />
or the need to enact comprehensive<br />
reforms.<br />
Senator Toomey’s “Stop Dangerous<br />
Sanctuary Cities Act” (S. 3100)<br />
literally transforms state and local<br />
law enforcement officers into federal<br />
immigration enforcement agents<br />
and distracts from their ability to<br />
protect and serve their local community.<br />
The bill also attempts to<br />
punish these so-called sanctuary jurisdictions<br />
by taking away millions<br />
of dollars in federal funding for<br />
programs that make communities<br />
stronger, including the Community<br />
Development Block Grant from<br />
any city, state or county that does<br />
not fully comply with Immigration<br />
and Customs Enforcement (ICE)<br />
detainers and notification requests.<br />
Senator Cruz’s bill, the “Stop Illegal<br />
Reentry Act” (S. 2193), would<br />
increase mandatory minimums for<br />
individuals convicted of “illegal reentry”<br />
into the United States.<br />
The term “sanctuary city” is often<br />
used incorrectly to describe a trust<br />
act or community policing policy<br />
that limits entanglement between<br />
local police and federal immigration<br />
authorities. These policies, in<br />
fact, make communities safer and<br />
increase communication between<br />
police and residents without imposing<br />
any restrictions on federal<br />
immigration agents in carrying out<br />
their job of enforcing immigration<br />
laws.<br />
Tom Manger, Chief of Police for<br />
Montgomery County and President<br />
of the Major Cities Chiefs Association,<br />
supports community policing<br />
policies that place limits on how local<br />
law enforcement is asked to enforce<br />
federal immigration laws. He<br />
said:<br />
“To do our job we must have the<br />
trust and respect of the communities<br />
we serve. We fail if the public<br />
fears their police and will not<br />
come forward when we need them.<br />
Whether we seek to stop child predators,<br />
drug dealers, rapists or robbers<br />
–we need the full cooperation<br />
of victims and witness. Cooperation<br />
is not forthcoming from persons<br />
who see their police as immigration<br />
agents. When immigrants come to<br />
view their local police and sheriffs<br />
with distrust because they fear de-<br />
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