467 jurisdictions in 26 states have joined a federal government program called Secure Communities to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests for anyone who was booked into a jail for a crime and compared with FBI criminal history records and the Department of Homeland Security immigration records to determine their immigration status.
"It has the potential to revolutionize immigration enforcement,said Sunita Patel, an attorney who filed a lawsuit in New York against the federal government on behalf of a group worried about the program.
ICE will be using biometric identification technologies currently in use by the FBI and other parts of DHS which is designed to accurately and efficiently identify illegal aliens and to prioritize them based on the severity of their crimes.
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The Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition said in its letter to the governor that the Secure Communities is "inherently flawed and should not be implemented." CIRC said one of its main concerns is that in cases of domestic violence, where both parties may be taken into custody while authorities investigate a case, victims may feel reluctant to report a crime out of fear that their illegal status will be discovered."
... "inherently flawed and should not be implemented." Am also a 100% sure that by checking EVERYBODY that the system is also a racist.
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It seems funny that so much of our illegal problem can be solved just by implementing laws that we already have on the books. This whole "we need comprehensive immigration reform" is just a euphemism for amnesty.
Another funny aspect of this is the emphasis put on how illegals will be afraid to report crime incidents for fear of being deported. Well, sorry about that but that's what happens when you live outside the law as a daily choice. It would be like advising domestic violence victims to not come forward because their partner may be arrested and disrupt the family.
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