New Year – Old News

Unfortunately travel kept me from live blogging Monday’s City Council meeting.  You can find Stephen Southwell’s live blog here, and city official video of the meeting here. E-Verify got shot down for approval but the council and staff will be exploring ways to encourage contractors to employ legal workers while reducing legal liability for the city as [...]

Round and Round the 287(g) Bush

Our newest city councilman has brought up the spectre of 287(g) again.  As has been written here and linked profusely, even the government (not just the Obama Administration but the previous Bush Administration) believes that 287(g) is a broken program with little consistency and limited usefulness. In response a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been created.  It [...]

Operation Community Shield

Police Chief Kerbow in his recent report mentioned that Lewisville had been exploring the use of Operation Community Shield.  With the failure of 287(g), including feedback from the only two cities in Texas using 287(g) that the use of CAP is more effective (Carrollton and Farmers Branch), Immigration and Customer Enforcement has slowly been rolling out alternatives. [...]

City Update I

Tuesday night’s council meeting had an update on what the city is doing to combat illegal immigration.  The specifics are on pages 158 on in the linked PDF.  Here’s the Summary:  Carrollton and Farmers Branch are the only two cities in Texas who have registered with 287(g).  Both cities have told Lewisville that the CAP program Lewisville [...]

287(g): Even the Government Says it’s Broken

Interesting article here, it’s a java magazine so you’ll have to click to pages 34-35.  Bottom line, the federal government is creating a new program; “Secure Communities is going to evolve and eclipse what 287(g) was doing.  In most cases, 287(g) is solely a jail program.”  Julie Myers Wood, Ice’s former Assistant Secretary, stated. Based on [...]