Immigration Crackdown: Civil rights groups demand Secure-Comm documents from ICE

Local groups ramp up their challenge to Secure Communities.

Civil rights groups demand Secure-Comm documents from ICE | San Francisco Bay Guardian: "In a turnabout from the usual immigration-related situation (in which ICE demands documents from immigrants) civil rights groups in Washington, DC. Arlington, VA. Santa Clara, CA. and San Francisco are requesting the release of documents concerning opt-out procedures in Immigration and Customs Enforcement's controversial 'Secure Communities' program.

... 'We are committed to moving ahead with the opt out process despite ICE now contradicting itself and claiming the program is compulsory. We support CCR, NDLON, and Cordozo Law School going to court today to demand release of what ICE has refused to divulge. The emergency injunction filed today does what should be automatic in any democracy, it seeks to make public information on S-Comm and our ability to opt-out by stopping the sharing of any fingerprints by these jurisdictions with ICE..'" Oct. 28, 2010