ICE to Inspector General Re 287(g): `We Fixed That`
Newspapers across the country have hyped a report by the Office of the Inspector General that is critical of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s 287(g) program. What the papers don’t tell you is that the criticism is a bit stale.
The Inspector General examined the 287(g) program from February to July, 2009. In July, however, ICE began a substantial reformation of the program. Most, if not all of the problems detailed in the report have already been corrected:
Since the audit was conducted, ICE has fundamentally reformed the 287(g) program, strengthening public safety and ensuring consistency in immigration enforcement across the country by prioritizing the arrest and detention of criminal aliens — fulfilling many of the report’s recommendations.
