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YLS takes on Secure Communities (Yale Law School News)
The Yale Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic is challenging the legality of a federal deportation program launched in Connecticut Wednesday.
City must make sure new program does not erode trust in authorities (Op Ed / New Times CT)
Secure Communities threatens to wipe out any goodwill re-established between city police and the immigrant community since that relationship was shaken in 2009, when Danbury entered into a partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The Buck Stops Here: How the LA County Sheriff’s Participation in Immigration Enforcement is Hurting Community Policing and Public Safety (Huff Post)
Last week as the abuse story was unfolding, parents at the school told the Associated Press that they were afraid to talk to the police about the case because they feared deportation through the “Secure Communities” program.
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.
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May 14, 2012
Federal and State Elected Officials Join Immigrants and Advocates in Protesting Activation of Mass Deportation Program in New York (Press Release)
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CCR Condemns Activation of Secure Communities in New York City (Press Release)
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DHS Inspector General Report Provides Further Proof ICE Cannot Reform Itself (PR)
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