Immigration Crackdown: Secure Communities Immigration Program A Gateway For Other FBI Data-Sharing

Secure Communities Immigration Program A Gateway For Other FBI Data-Sharing: "Documents released on Wednesday reveal more details about how the government planned to roll out its Secure Communities immigration-enforcement plan and confirm that the FBI plans to implement additional security programs in the next five years -- whether or not states consent to participate.

The documents show the FBI was more involved than originally known in the decision to make Secure Communities effectively mandatory. Under the program, fingerprints taken by local law enforcement agencies during bookings are shared between the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, which uses them for immigration enforcement. ...

In documents released to the National Day Laborer Organization, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, FBI officials discussed how to implement the program in as many jurisdictions as possible. They wrote that they planned to use Secure Communities as a testing ground for other data-sharing programs between local law enforcement and the federal government."