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If you're wondering who Vera Baker Vera Baker -- the woman
rumored to have been involved with Barack Obama during his Senate
race -- is, then you must not have been paying attention to the Republicans during the 2008 presidential campaign. TAKE BACK IMMIGRATION POLICY The Supreme Court has consistently ruled that states cannot make their own immigration laws. The Arizona debacle gives the Obama administration another chance to make it clear that the nation’s immigration policy cannot be left to a ragged patchwork of state and local laws.
As a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama praised a federal court’s decision striking down a law in Hazleton, Pa., that made it illegal to hire or rent housing to undocumented immigrants. To start forcefully asserting the central federal role in immigration, the administration should rescind a once-secret 2002 memo from President George W. Bush’s attorney general, John Ashcroft, that declared that state and local police had “inherent authority” to make immigration arrests. *What about his aunt who is here illegally? Once again there is a conflict of interest. As far as the police are concerned, just an fyi, police can take special 'courses' to train them which makes them qualified to process illegal immigrants. The police have that right to arrest them but the FEDS have to follow through. What or Who is stopping them?.Rather than spending valuable time and training funds on traditional classroom training, officers can now use Basic Immigration Enforcement Training (BIET) for their immigration training. BIET consists of Web-based courses, allowing officers to take classes when and wherever is most convenient for them.
A rising immigrant population in the U.S. has led to a dramatic increase in local, state, and tribal law enforcement encounters with both legal and illegal immigrants during routine police duties. As immigration continues to affect interior communities, there is an increasing demand for law enforcement officers to have a working knowledge of immigration law and policy.
BIET is a highly interactive, self-paced multimedia training program that addresses the immigration knowledge requirements of local, state, and tribal law enforcement officers. BIET addresses a wide range of topics including:
BIET was developed by Cameron University and Advanced Systems Technology, Inc. with funding received from the U.S. Department of Justice COPS Office. The pilot program is available for free to all law enforcement departments that meet the participation criteria. The pilot program is only open to 500 officers, so sign up today to gain access to BIET's innovative training.
Interested law enforcement agencies can sign up by visiting http://www.nexportsolutions.com/biet/ or by sending an email to customer-service@dcmsnet.info. Please mention "Basic Immigration Enforcement Training" in the subject line, and provide the following information: Name, Organization, City, State, Zip, Work phone, E-mail addressChicago - One of Todd Stroger’s top-ranking Cook County employees received a county contract for her private business just days after being hired, a FOX Chicago News investigation has found.
In February, Stroger appointed Carla Oglesby to be his deputy chief of staff. Ten days later, Oglesby’s company CGC Communications, received a check from the county for $24,975. The contract was just $25 under the mandatory reporting requirement to the County Board.
"I think at this point we're having a going out of business sale and everything must go and we're pulling in all of Todd's friends and family and giving them jobs and contracts," said Cook County Commissioner Tim Schneider.
"Anything over $25,000 would have to endure the scrutiny of the board," Schneider said. "We've seen too many times that these contracts fly right under the radar of the $25,000 threshhold and this is happening time and time again."
