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Driving While Immigrant (The Nation)
On June 17, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a slate of reforms to its Secure Communities program that director John Morton said are about prioritizing its limited resources and “making sure we focus on those people it makes the most sense to remove.” In reality they amount to a political attempt to salvage Obama’s flagship immigration program, which despite a multi-million dollar mandate to target “dangerous criminal aliens,” has been undermined by ICE’s own data, which shows the majority of those it deports have no criminal record, or were charged with minor offenses like traffic tickets.
High deporation rate to be discussed (KXAN)
The Texas Civil Rights Project and two immigration lawyers will hold a press conference Monday at 11 a.m. to discuss a new report which indicates a higher deportation rate for undocumented immigrants with no criminal records than that of the noted sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Joe Arpaio.
Travis County Leads Nation in Deportation of Non-criminals via Fed. Fingerprinting (Austin Market Examiner)
Travis County, Texas, so far has deported a higher percentage of non-criminals than any county in the federal government’s new Secure Communities project. The controversial program, launched in 2008, automatically checks fingerprint records of jail and prison inmates to see whether they’re in the United States illegally.
Travis County Leads Nation in Deporting ‘Noncriminal’ Immigrants (American Statesman)
Undocumented immigrants with no criminal histories are being deported from Travis County at a higher percentage than any other county in the United States, according to government statistics obtained and analyzed by several advocacy groups. According to the groups, 82 percent of deportations of jail inmates through a federal fingerprint-sharing program in Travis County were of “noncriminals,” such as those with no violent histories.
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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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Apr 6, 2012
DHS Inspector General Report Provides Further Proof ICE Cannot Reform Itself (PR)
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