by Tom Barry

This new policy report from the Americas Program concludes that "to restore integrity in the immigration system, the Obama administration needs to act decisively to restore its function as a regulatory system and remove it from the country's overcharged system of crime and punishment."

Tom Barry directs the TransBorder Project of the Americas Program (www.americaspolicy.org) at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC. He blogs at http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com/. He is the author of the recent CIP policy report, Immigrant Crackdown Joins Failed Wars on Crime and Drugs

See the article online at:
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6135

Related articles from the Americas Policy Program:
Criminal Alien Funding and the Immigrant-Based Criminal Justice Complex
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6114

Immigrant Crackdown Joins Failed Crime and Drug Wars
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6015

Fighting the Drug War at Homeland Security
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6111

"War on Crime" Targets Immigrants
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6110