immigrants

Rights Working Group Applauds Governor Cuomo for Suspending the Secure Communities Initiative in New York State

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Keith Rushing
krushing@rightsworkinggroup.org
(p) 202.591.3305, (c) 202.557.4291                     

Don’t Quota Me

Sarnata Reynolds, March 30, 2010 -- On February 22, James Chaparro’s sixth day on the job as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) behemoth detention and removal operation, he issued a memo directing all ICE field office directors to collectively identify, detain and deport 400,000 individuals in 2010.