Saturday, April 28, 2012

Secure Communities

  • WASHINGTON -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Friday announced a policy change for its Secure Communities program, hoping to address concerns raised by advocacy groups and an agency task force.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • GRAHAM — All 100 counties in North Carolina have the federal Secure Communities program available for use to help identify illegal immigrants who have been arrested.
  • (Times-News)
  • SANTA CRUZ -- County Sheriff-Coroner Phil Wowak is at odds with members of the countys immigrant communities over a proposed deportation-related policy linked to the controversial Secure Communities program.
  • (The Californian)
  • NEWARK — Community leaders in Newark say it's time to talk.
  • (NJ.com)
  • One of the task force's central recommendations was that the program, called Secure Communities, should avoid deportations of traffic violators.
  • (New York Times)
  • A federal program that uses fingerprint analysis to identify illegal immigrants in county jails has been activated in Washington state and Montana ahead of the 2013 nationwide rollout, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
  • (Seattle Times)
  • Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren says the federal Secure Communities law should be improved before it is fully implemented by the end of next year.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • WEST BOYLSTON — U.S. Sen. Scott Brown said yesterday that if there were more leadership in Massachusetts, the state might already have the federal Secure Communities program or it might get it sooner.
  • (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
  • Thats why, on Friday, I signed an Executive Order making life a whole lot more secure for our service members, veterans and their families -- and a whole lot tougher for anyone who tries to prey on them.
  • (USA Today)

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