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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.
