Oct 5, 2010

Immigration Crackdown: Editorial - Confusion Over Secure Communities - NYTimes.com

So, NY Times, just how DO you think police in Arizona and other xenophobic states will use Secure Communities?

Editorial - Confusion Over Secure Communities - NYTimes.com: "By 2013, according to an Obama administration plan, everyone in the United States who is arrested and fingerprinted will undergo an immigration check. Suspects’ names and fingerprints will be run not just through criminal databases but compared against immigration records, too, through a program that is being steadily and rapidly rolled out across the country. ....

Secure Communities should not allow overzealous local police officers to use arbitrary stops as way to ensnare illegal immigrants in the deportation web. Nor should the administration let its zeal for immigration enforcement complicate the jobs of local law enforcement, or impose new layers of fear and isolation on immigrants." Oct. 5, 2010

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