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Protester explains why she risked deportation (San Bernadino)
She’s an American citizen in all but paperwork, she says, who knows nothing about Mexico. She hates the idea of laws that could tear her from her family and send her to a country she doesn’t remember if she winds up in police custody.
5 Things You Should Know About the FBI’s Massive New Biometric Database (Alternet)
Civil libertarians worry about the roll-out of Next Generation Identification, a massive expansion of the agency’s current biometric database.
Administration folds in immigration FOIA fight, admits error (POLITICO)
The Obama Administration has quietly thrown in the towel in a long-running battle to prevent disclosure of internal legal memos about its plans to force local law enforcement agencies to participate in the controversial immigration-enforcement system known as Secure Communities.
Federal immigration enforcement is mandatory, memo says (LA Times)
A recently released memo says that the Secure Communities program will become mandatory by 2013; states and some counties had been told they could opt out.
Trust and Translation: Community Policing in New Bedford, MA (Audio)
Will Coley reports on how New Bedford’s police are trying to adapt to the changes in the city’s immigrant community.
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