March 7, 2012

CIS – Report challenges attack on Secure Communities

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Center for Immigration Studies

Report challenges attack on Secure Communities

A new report from the Center for Immigration Studies examines the outcomes of Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities program and how those outcomes have been misleadingly described in one widely-circulated study published by the Earl Warren Institute at the University of California, Berkeley Law School. The Center’s report, second in a three-part series, uses the same database…

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August 16, 2011

11 Alive video report on the crazies protest of Secure Communities today

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August 6, 2011

Duh… States can’t opt out of Secure Communities program

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Los Angeles Times

States can’t opt out of Secure Communities program

In an unusual move, the Obama administration has told governors they cannot exempt their states from the controversial Secure Communities program, which uses fingerprints collected by local and state police to help immigration authorities identify and deport tens of thousands of criminals each year…

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May 23, 2011

Enforcement works….Secure Communities in MA

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Jessica Vaughan and Mike Stopa — Boston Globe

Immigration and ‘Secure Communities’

Most illegal [aliens] worry about being deported, so it is not unusual that they fear the police. This fear erupted into protests when Governor Patrick announced in December that Massachusetts would implement Secure Communities, a federal program that helps ICE coordinate efforts with state and local police to find and remove criminal illegal [aliens]…

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January 17, 2011

Nearly 40 states sign on for Secure Communities program because…ENFORCEMENT WORKS

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Superior (Wisc.) Telegram

Nearly 40 states sign on for ICE database tracking system

Wisconsin has joined 37 other states in a law enforcement network to help track down and deport [illegal aliens] who have committed crimes. — Under the “Secure Communities” program, local law enforcement agencies will run a fingerprint match for everyone booked into jail using a national Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database…

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January 7, 2011

News we enjoy posting…’The goal of Secure Communities is for it to install the system in the country’s more than 3,000 jails by (the end of) 2013

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“During Fiscal Year 2010, ICE deported 392,862 undocumented foreigners, of whom more than 195,000 were convicted criminals, an increase of more than 23,000 deportations – including 81,000 people with criminal records – compared with 2008.

In 2009, deportations totaled 389,834 and the goal for 2011 is 404,000.

ICE broadened the Secure Communities program, a biometric technology effort that compares the fingerprints of people being held in local jails with those in ICE and FBI databases.

Up through November 2009, the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the measure, which operated at that time in 95 detention centers in 11 states, John Morton, the Homeland Security assistant secretary for ICE, announced that Secure Communities had detected 11,000 undocumented foreigners accused of major crimes such as murder, rape and kidnapping.

Currently, the program is operating at 891 incarceration centers in 35 states.

An example of its rapid expansion is in the state of North Carolina, which in 2009 had 13 Secure Communities participating in the program and by Dec. 21, 2010, was functioning in 77 counties.

According to ICE spokesperson Barbara Gonzalez, during 2010 about 90,937 people were arrested on the federal level for immigration violations after being identified by Secure Communities and deportation proceedings have been begun against 49,739 of them.

Of that latter group, 11,493 are being deported for committing major Level 1 crimes, another 19,271 for Level 2 crimes such as drug trafficking, and another 5,275 for Level 3 infractions including traffic violations.

The rest – 13,700 – were acquitted of the criminal charges against them in court but their immigration cases remain pending because they were found to be in the country without the proper documents.

‘The goal of Secure Communities is for it to install the system in the country’s more than 3,000 jails by (the end of) 2013’ said Gonzalez…” HERE

December 15, 2010

SECURE COMMUNITIES: Forsyth jail joins fingerprint program aimed at illegals

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Forsyth jail joins fingerprint program aimed at illegals

Forsyth County’s jail on Tuesday became the latest to join a federal fingerprint-checking program aimed at deporting violent illegal immigrants. — Under the $200 million national program, everyone booked into the jail will have their fingerprints checked against millions of others…

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December 10, 2010

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST! Georgia Congressmen invite ICE and John Morton to explain themselves on Georgia being behind Hawaii and West Virginia on activation of the super successful Secure Communities fingerprint sharing initiative

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The Georgia G-7 have sent a reply to John Morton. Sort of a “come on up and explain yourselves” invitation.

Yesterday’s letter linked HERE. Sorry I didn’t post when it was sent to us yesterday!

We are very proud of DIS role in getting this conversation started…we hope the anti-enforcement crazies at the ACLU’s Georgia Detention Watch appreciate it as well!

For background and previous posts on this see HERE

ADDED 12:40: Resulting AJC story

Georgia congressmen seek meeting with ICE chief
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) – Jeremy Redmon

“Still steaming over the pace of a federal program targeting illegal immigration, seven Republican congressmen from Georgia have invited the head of US …”

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December 2, 2010

Secure Communities – 8 Oklahoma counties to benefit from ICE strategy to deport criminal aliens

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ICE

8 Oklahoma counties to benefit from ICE strategy to deport criminal aliens

On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using a federal information sharing capability in eight additional Oklahoma counties that helps federal immigration officials use biometrics to identify aliens, both lawfully and unlawfully present in the United States, who are booked into local law enforcement’s custody for a crime…

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Secure Communities: ICE: All of Atlanta area to get fingerprint checks within months

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ICE: All of Atlanta area to get fingerprint checks within months

A federal fingerprint-sharing program aimed at deporting criminal illegal immigrants will be operating across all of metro Atlanta by the end of September, according to federal records obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. — Forsyth County’s jail is set to join the “Secure Communities” program Dec. 14….

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