Secure Communities Initiative

Dear Secretary Napolitano: Suspend Secure Communities

Ali Noorani | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Secure Communities, Immigration, Dhs, Justice Department, Jakadrien Turner, Immigration Reform, Secure Communities Program, Arizona Immigration, Napolitano Dhs, Secure Communities Initiative, Doj Arizona, Politics News

Secretary Napolitano has her work cut out for her if she truly wants her department to sidestep discriminatory practices and restore an ounce of credibility to Secure Communities.

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Divisive Immigration Pilot Program Coming To Denver

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: Video, Denver News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Illegal Immigrants, Secure Communities Initiative, Secure Communities Pilot Program, Secure Communities, Secure Communities Denver, Denver News

The Department of Homeland Security's contentious 'Secure Communities' program may soon have a friendlier cousin, pending a successful six-week pilot ...

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Immigration Activists Call For End Of Secure Communities Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Jorge Luis Macias | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Secure Communities Program, Video, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration Rights Activists, Latino Politics, Secure Communities Initiative, Illegal Immigration, Secure Communities, Immigration, Dhs, Latino Voices News

LOS ANGELES -- On Thursday, the Obama administration announced the Department of Homeland Security would begin a case-by-case review of 300,000 deport...

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Thanks to ICE, Families Are Under Threat This Mother's Day

Nahal Zamani | Posted 07.07.2011

Read More: Center for Constitutional Rights, Mother's Day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Secure Communities Initiative, Secure Communities, Immigration, Ndlon, Families, Politics News

On Sunday, countless people across the country will honor the women and mothers in their families. For many, however, Mother's Day will be a tragic re...

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Local Officials Say They Were Duped Into Federal Deportation Program

latimes.com | Lee Romney and Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Secure Communities, Undocumented Immigrants, Secure Communities Immigration, Deportation, Illegal Immigrants, Secure Communities Initiative, Los Angeles News

Under the program, fingerprints of all inmates booked into local jails and cross-checked with the FBI's criminal database are now forwarded by that ag...

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Colorado Immigration Issues Take Center Stage This Week

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sb-1070, Colorado Legislature, Colorado, Arizona Immigration Law, DREAM Act, Secure Communities Initiative, Immigration, Immigration News, Denver News

Immigration issues are set to take center stage in Colorado this week, as state and local governments weigh in on several controversial national issue...

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Dishonesty Is Not the Best Policy, Neither Is Secure Communities

Pablo Alvarado | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration, Ndlon, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secure Communities Initiative, David Venturella, Politics News

When the Director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency's "Secure Communities" program, David Venturella said, "Have we created some of th...

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Bill Ritter Considering Modifications To Secure Communities Program

KDVR | Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fingerprints, Immigration, Bill Ritter, Secure Communities Initiative, Denver News

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado is considering possible changes to a growing federal program that uses fingerprints to catch illegal immigrants....

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Flip-flopping About a Bad Policy

Margaret Huang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Secretary Napolitano, Open Goverment, Dhs, Racial Profiling, Ice, Secure Communities Initiative, Home News

Last week, the Arlington County (Virginia) Board sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Department of Homeland Security (DH...

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Local Immigration Enforcement, Coming Soon to A City Near You

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Janet Napolitano, Secure Communities Initiative, Obama Administration, Immigration Enforcement, Washington DC, Immigration, San Francisco, Politics News

It's official: Cities have no way to get out of Secure Communities, the Obama administration's fastest growing local immigration enforcement program, a disappointing end to months of confusion over whether localities could opt out.

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How Immigration Reform Got Caught in the Deportation Dragnet

Seth Freed Wessler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citizenship, Immigration Reform, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Secure Communities Initiative, Immigration Enforcement, Gop, Immigration, 287(G), Robert Menendez, Immigrant Detention, Barack Obama, Texas, Bangladesh, Deportation, Video, Politics News

This is the sort of human story that lies behind the deportation numbers the Obama administration bragged about this week. The indiscriminate deportation machine is undercutting the promise of reform.

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Deportation Fears Stress Colorado Immigrant Families

Colorado Springs Independent | By Marc Weidenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Tom Tancredo, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secure Communities Initiative, Illegal Alien, Immigration, Immigration Policy, Colorado, Denver News

In past years, Sandra Hernandez, executive director of the Colorado Springs nonprofit Centro de la Familia and a licensed clinical social worker, spe...

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'Secure Communities' Fingerprint Initiative Draws Ire Of Immigrant Groups

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration Reform, Immigration, Fingerprint Immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secure Communities Initiative, Illegal Immigrants, Denver News

DENVER — The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing oppositio...

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Can Cities Really Opt Out of Secure Communities?

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, DC City Council, Secure Communities Initiative, Immigration Enforcement, Washington DC, Immigration, Sf Board of Supervisors, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, San Francisco, Zoe Lofgren, Politics News

Secure Communities is touted as a voluntary partnership that strengthens "efforts to remove dangerous criminal aliens from the U.S." Some cities looking to opt out of this "voluntary" program found their hands tied.

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ICE Deporting More Immigrants Than Ever... or Are They?

Andrew Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Courts, John Morton, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Deportation, Secure Communities Initiative, Politics News

As the rhetoric heats up this political season, the right has hammered the White House for being soft on immigration enforcement while the left has slammed Obama and ICE for being too tough

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ICE's Misplaced Priorities: The Numbers Speak for Themselves and the Stories Cry out for Justice

Azadeh Shahshahani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, ACLU of Georgia, Cobb County, 287(G), Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secure Communities Initiative, Politics News

This past Wednesday, Jessica Colotl was released from the Etowah Detention Center in Alabama and allowed to reunite with her family back in Cobb Count...

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The Real Problem With Arizona's Immigration Law? We've Heard It Before

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Janet Napolitano, Secure Communities Initiative, President Obama, Arizona Immigration Bill, sb1070, Immigration, Arizona Immigration Law, 287(G), Criminal Alien Program, Politics News

Federal officials in recent weeks have publicly opposed SB1070, Arizona's now-infamous immigration law. Department of Homeland Security Secretary (and...

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Immigration Enforcement: The Growing Federal-Local Battle

Afton Branche | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, DC City Council, Secure Communities Initiative, Los Angeles, Immigration, San Francisco, Sanctuary Cities, Immigration Policy, Politics News

Immigration and Customs Enforcement's federal-local partnership programs continue to proliferate -- but they may undermine local approaches to immigration enforcement.

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Transfers Imminent as Varick Street Immigration Detention Center Set to Close

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alien Security Check, Caribbean Immigrants, CARICOM Returnees, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Corrections, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detainee Transfer Notification, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Families for Freedom, Family-Detention, Ice, Idp, Iirira, Immigrants Defense Project, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Detention, Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, International Office of Migration, Isap, Mandatory Detention, National Detention Standards, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Detention Reform, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Trinidad Returnees, Varick-Street-Detention-Center, New York News

The decision by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to close its 300-bed facility at Varick Street in Manhattan is of great concern to immigrant rights advocates.

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Protestors Agitated, ICE Responded - and a Haitian Immigrant is Released from Detention

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

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The announcement by the Department of Homeland Security that Temporary Protected Status - and suspension of deportation - would be granted to Haitian ...

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Mission Creep in Immigration Enforcement

Marielena Hincapié | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Reform, Immigration, 287(G), Criminal Alien Program, Janet Napolitano, Secure Communities Initiative, Politics News

Through a series of poorly conceived programs, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has hijacked state criminal justice systems. It lets even arrests based on racial profiling be a direct route to deportation.

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The Faces of Detention and Deportation: Jean Murat Montrevil

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alien Security Check, Caribbean Deportees, Caribbean Immigrants, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Corrections, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detainee Transfer Notification, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Dora Schriro, Families for Freedom, First Friends, Ice, Idp, Iirira, Immigrants Defense Project, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Reform, International Office of Migration, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, National Detention Standards, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Trinidad Deportees, Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, Isap, Politics News

Instead of expending its resources to deport immigrants like Jean Murat Montrevil, ICE should exercise its discretion to grant Deferred Action.

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The Least of These: Family Detention in America

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alien Security Check, Caribbean Deportees, Caribbean Immigrants, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Corrections, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detainee Transfer Notification, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Dora Schriro, Families for Freedom, First Friends, Ice, Idp, Iirira, Immigrants Defense Project, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Reform, Intensive Supervision Appearance Program, International Office of Migration, Isap, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, National Detention Standards, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Trinidad Deportees, Family-Detention, Politics News

Given the financial and other challenges of housing families in detention centers, Obama should consider more 'civil' alternatives available, such as releasing families into the community.

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Time to De-ICE the Department of Corrections

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Caribbean Immigrants, Child Citizen Protection Act, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Criminal Alien Program, Department of Homeland Security, Deportation, Detention, Detention Policy, Detention Policy Oversight, Families for Freedom, First Friends, Ice, Iirira, Immigration, Immigration Detainer, Immigration Reform, International Office of Migration, Janet Napolitano, Mandatory Detention, New Sanctuary Movement, Obama CARICOM, Obama Immigration, Obama Immigration Reform, Obama Trinidad, Scaap, Secure Communities Initiative, Trinidad, Department of Corrections, Dora Schriro, National Detention Standards, Detainee Transfer Notification, Alien Security Check, Caribbean Deportees, Trinidad-Deportees, New York News

Dora Schriro, the new commissioner of corrections for New York City, should fight to remove Immigrations and Customs Enforcement from New York City's jails.

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