‘Secure Communities’ Program Subject of Recent Federal Hearing (TN)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security — whose greatest hits include turning shampoo ownership into a liability, harnessing the awesome powers of science to expose the genitals of hapless air travel passengers and, most famously, evoking an outpouring of national sympathy for Mike Myers — carved another notch in its Freedom Belt last week, when the umbrella agency rescinded its memorandum of agreements with states participating in its controversial (and formerly voluntary) Secure Communities program (aka “S-Comm).