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Report: Non-criminals, minor violators make up the majority of those deported via Secure Communities (FL Independent)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement data received through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that Secure Communities, a federal immigration enforcement program, detains and deports people who are not criminals.
Internal Documents Prove ICE Misled Public About Secure Communities
Officials with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deliberately misled the public and local law enforcement agencies about the immigration-enforcement program Secure Communities.
Immigrant rights groups file injunction for Secure Communities opt-out info
The National Day Laborer Organization Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic of the Cardozo School of Law announced today that they filed “an injunction in federal court to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to turn over documents that would explain how communities could opt out” of Secure Communities a fingerprint-sharing, immigration enforcement program.
Few deported aliens have serious criminal records, activists say (Miami Herald)
Few deported aliens have serious criminal records, activists say BY ALFONSO CHARDY [email protected] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has touted an 18-month-old program under which [...]
Secure Communities under scrutiny (Florida Independent)
ICE data shows that in Miami-Dade and Hillsborough counties 66 percent of Secure Communities deportations are of non-criminals. In St. Lucie County that number goes up to 79 percent. All 67 Florida counties became party to Secure Communities as of June 2010.
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