Ifpa Case

Which federal agency has reformulated its priorities, making protection from terrorism the number one goal?

This paper explores the career of an immigration lawyer. It goes through the different possibilities within the career, and the different opportunities to choose from. This paper examines the different areas in which an immigration lawyer can focus on; not only does it explore the options for a lawyer but also gives brief descriptions of the EOIR, USCIS, BIA, and ICE which are different areas of immigration in which an immigration lawyer has to work with or against to help whomever they are representing. The EOIR stands for Executive Office of Immigration review; USCIS is United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; BIA is Board of Immigration Appeals; and ICE is Immigrations and Customs Enforcements. It also briefly describes the necessary requirements for becoming a lawyer, and more information regarding the desired career. Along with information about the various possibilities within the career, it will also explain a brief outline of the history of immigration and how the career option came about.

Good evening to all. I hope all is well this week. As many of you have stated, I thought I had a descent grasp of the United States Intelligence oversight. However, to my surprise I found that I actually did not have as good of an understanding as I thought. My shortcoming was in understanding just how convoluted the system is. The system has evolved over the years just as many things do. However, the system still has a long way to go before it’s as effective as it could be. Former Under Secretary Charles Allen noted that “virtually any terrorist attack on the homeland that one can imagine must exploit a border crossing, a port of entry, a critical infrastructure, or one of the other domains that the department has an obligation to

The Homeland Security Act and the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002 along with the Department of Homeland Security, formed Nov. 25, 2002, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), formed in 2003 are all things put in place post 9/11 to control immigration. The one most Americans are familiar with is the Homeland Security Act, which was put into place to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism, and minimize damage and assist in recovery for terrorist attacks that occur in the United States. Visas got to be harder to drop by for visitors, understudies and outside nationals and the individuals who were conceded into the nation were liable to further investigation as fingerprints and other biometric information was gathered. The Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Migration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), are tasked with the security of the U.S. also, its outskirts. The movement strategy influenced individuals from Mexico and Latin America, in spite of their having nothing to do with 9/11, and their way to U.S. citizenship.

She elaborates, “the primary weakness in this system has been […] easy to counterfeit – that are permitted for meeting I-9 requirements. To respond to the proliferation and abuse of such documents, the federal government has sought to develop a reliable electronic employment verification” (Meissner 77). The current employer sanctions are highly inaccurate because there is no way to verify the documents. At the same time, firms can knowingly hire an unauthorized worker by encouraging

Attached please find a Power Point presentation slide deck that we have prepared for the National Union Staff. We will provide an overview of the I-130 pilot Immigration Benefit Fraud Assessment (IBFA) (Slides A through D), the expected timeline to complete the pilot study (Slide E), and our expectations for officers who have volunteered to participate in the study(Slide F). We would end our presentation with a discussion on the best way to solicit volunteer immigration service officers to help adjudicate the selected study cases. Please distribute the material to your invitees.

Despite the many battles overseas and the threats from Islamic terrorism, The U.S needs to prevent terrorist from entering U.S soil. In Mark Krikorian’s “Safety Through immigration Control” article, Krikorian suggests that The Department of Homeland Security needs to control immigration because it is critical for the United States’ safety. In addition, weather the terrorists use guns, airplanes, or bombs, they cannot be let in U.S ground. Krikorian presents a study conducted which finds that almost all sections from immigration systems have been pierced by the opposition. Of the 48 Al-Qaida operatives who have committed terrorizing attacks since 1993, almost 33% of them were on different temporary visas. Another 33% were accounted as legal citizens in the U.S, and 25% were on U.S soil illegally. The 8% left had pending asylum application granted them entry to the States. Furthermore, With Al-Qaida adapting and improving their ways of attacks

Many people within the government have long advocated the need for a better system to track visitors and their movements within the United States. In recent history there has been no easy way to identify known criminals and/or determine which individuals have overstayed their visas. “The General Accounting Office estimates the number of visa overstays at 2 million - and growing by 125,000 a year.”[9] However, because of growing public concern for privacy and the lack of a suitable technology, no successful

U.S Customs and Border Protection has also been in charge in keeping terrorist and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S laws (Peak, 2009, Pg. 164). Consequently, immigrants have been victims of human trafficking. According to Larry K. Gaines from the textbook Criminal Justice in Action, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has played an important role in focusing the nation’s borders. Their mission is to detain illegal aliens and deport them to their country, and disrupting trafficking operations. In 2008, ICE removed about

As one of the most efficient States in fighting terrorism, Florida has avoided the Department of Homeland Security all together. Instead, Florida has an Office of Domestic Security and an Office of Statewide Intelligence in order to stop terrorist, respond, and recover from terrorist attacks (2). Aside from these organizations, Florida has more than a dozen other organizations/centers including the Research and Analysis Unit (RAU) Financial Crimes and Analysis Center (FCAC), and Florida Investigative Support Center (FISC) ("Florida Department of…” 1). What Florida has done well that the nation has not done well as a whole is communication. By splitting Florida into seven regions, communication between the regions has been effective and can be compiled easily. Each quarter, the information is compiled and then sent back to the agents in order to analyze crime and determine where distribution of resources will go (1).

SMFBA doesn’t really have much control over the supply side of things. Meaning, SMFBA doesn’t get to chose their donations as their business is solely dependent on donor relationships and donor dollars. Currently they don’t even choose the delivery time and pickup schedules for these donations. For example, if large retail stores like let’s say Walmart wants them to pick up their donations as early as morning 4 am (which is usually the case for most of the big retail stores), SMFBA is present at that given time at the stores’ distribution centers for pickup, no matter what their routing preferences be. On the other hand, after the pickup of donations is done, all the trucks have to come back to SMFBA dockyard to unload the trucks, so that all

The 9/11 incident crippled the American economy and its impact is still felt at present times. Following this tragedy, a commission was initiated by President George W. Bush and the congress to investigate the reasons behind the bombing and provide recommendations to help avert such occurrences in the future. Therefore, this paper discusses the impact of making the US border more secure, the rationale behind replacing the "need to know" with the "need to share". Moreover, the paper highlights the DOD's role the role in border and coastal security, its relationship with the Department of Homeland Security and how DOD supports civil authorities.

Dividend Policy of FPL Group’s case is about if investors should buy, sell, or hold the decreasing shares of FPL stock. Florida Power & Light (FPL) is one of the largest electrical companies in the United States. An analyst from Merrill Lynch downgraded the FPL stock after months of decreasing share price. On May 5th 1994, Florida Power & Lights’ stock price fell by 6 per cent after that analysis. From September of 1993 to May of 1994 the price has decreased by 19.6 per cent. Income investors and growth investors are the two ways that people like to invest. Companies like FPL pay a portion of earnings back to their shareholders in the form of dividends. Income investors are highly

Exploratory research: IFRET has designed the IBFA study with an objective to examine the sample characteristics, such as an overstayed visa status of the beneficiaries or non-cohabitating couples, so that a statistical model can be used to estimate the probability of fraud for the population given the sample characteristics.

The effectiveness of the list depends on two things; accurate identification of individuals, and distributing this information to the front line agencies conducting the inspections of persons attempting to enter the country, obtain visas, board an aircraft, et cetera. Though not public knowledge, the list is now reported to be growing at the rate of 200,000 names per year and in 2009 reached the 1 million person threshold. Its exorbitant size has drawn criticism from lawmakers, security experts, and civil rights advocates who argue that “its size undermines its authority”, and that “there is no rational, reasonable estimate that there’s anywhere close to that many suspected terrorists” [4]. Moving towards making the list more effective and less discouraging for innocents, the FBI and DHS claim they have removed over 51,000 person in 2008-2009 as a result of their redress requests, and through the constant reviewing of records in the database they combine persons of interest aliases into one record, removing innocent persons who share those aliases