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Congress to Examine Secure Communities Program
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Tue, 2011-11-29 17:14FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: Keith Rushing, Communications Manager, Rights Working Group, 202.591.3305, 202.557.4291 krushing@rightsworkinggroup.org
November 29, 2011, Washington, D.C. – House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement hearing titled, “Is Secure Communities Keeping Our Communities Secure?,” set for tomorrow, must involve a full investigation of the impact of this federal program on community safety if the hearing is going to be substantive and meaningful.
New Report Shows Secure Communities Leads to Racial Profiling
Submitted by sian ofaolain on Mon, 2011-10-24 11:43Image:
A new report reveals a number of concerning findings about the impact that the Secure Communities (S-Comm) program has on racial profiling and the loss of due process. The Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy recently released a report entitled “Secure Communities by the Numbers: An Analysis of Demographics and Due Process.” Below are some of the key findings.
Racial Profiling: Latinos and Men Targeted through S-Comm
Activists Call on D.C. Council to Pass Ordinance Limiting Cooperation with ICE
Submitted by sian ofaolain on Fri, 2011-09-30 14:02Image:
Human rights, immigrants rights and civil liberties activists called on Washington, D.C. city council this week to pass an ordinance that would limit the involvement of city police, corrections officers and agencies in immigration enforcement collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Tuesday, at a press conference on the steps of the John A. Wilson Building--where city council and the mayor’s offices are located--activists called on the city to continue its tradition of being a leading progressive city on immigration issues.
Racial Profiling Aside, DHS Moves Forward to Force Secure Communities Nationwide
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Fri, 2011-08-12 11:39Federal immigration officials announced Friday that they will be ramming the Secure Communities program down the throats of all states and cities nationwide by 2013 – irrespective of whether the states and localities have an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to participate in the program or whether they wish to participate at all.
The Obama Administration Should Place a Moratorium on the Secure Communities Initiative
Submitted by Keith Rushing on Wed, 2011-05-18 17:15If ICE (the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency) is good at one thing, it’s spin. What ICE’s media machine spits out regarding how the agency is ridding America of the “worst of the worst” through its Secure Communities Initiative is quite different from what’s been revealed through analyses of ICE’s own data, which tell a very different story.
Illegal Immigration and Serious Crime Should Not Be Conflated
Submitted by Aadika Singh on Mon, 2009-11-30 17:24New York Times Editorial - Immigrants, Criminalized - November 27, 2009 - Editorial emphasizes that it is "important for the [Obama] administration to avoid conflating illegal immigration and serious crime.
Secure Communities: Turning a Blind Eye
Submitted by nadine wahab on Sun, 2009-11-22 12:39On Nov. 2, Acting Executive Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities Program, Marc Rapp, alleged in a letter to the New York Times that the program “doesn’t racially profile.” This conclusion misses the point. Rapp’s myopic assessment of the Secure Communities Program fails to account for racial profiling that occurs before individuals are booked and turns a blind eye to local law enforcement misbehavior.
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