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Secure Communities Program no longer just an option

08/12/2011 By 1 Comment

In 2008, President Obama introduced the Secure Communities Program (S-Comm), a fingerprint-sharing program that would help in the deportation of convicted felons here illegally by sharing fingerprints collected by local police with immigration authorities. A number of state governors decided not to participate in this program, due to the controversial nature of the program and its tendency to target people who haven’t been convicted yet. But the Obama administration has recently informed all states that the program will proceed whether they support it or not.

Read the full story at the L.A.Times.

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  1. Lost in Detention | Being Latino Online Magazine says:
    10/17/2011 at 8:30 am

    [...] its investigation in Obama’s home state of Illinois, where Hinojosa examines the impact of the Secure Communities enforcement program. Secure Communities combines Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) records with those of the [...]

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