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National Day Laborers Organizing Network
Legal Director of the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, based in Los Angeles, California
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Chris Newman
Guest
FROM Chris Newman
Which Way, L.A.?
Local Law Enforcement and Federal Immigration Law The state legislature is considered likely to pass a measure called the Transparency and Responsibility Using State Tools – or TRUST Act , designed to blunt the impact of a controversial federal immigration program called " Secure Communities ."
Which Way, L.A.?
Should Local Law Enforcement Work with Immigration Authorities? The Obama Administration says the program Secure Communities is "crucial" to finding criminal immigrants and deporting them. The fingerprints of every person booked by local police are checked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement with the stated goal of exporting illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes. But the reality is different. ICE's own files reveal that in Illinois nearly one-third of those deported had no criminal convictions at all. Democratic Governor Pat Quinn says he's pulling out of the program. The Sheriff of San Francisco, with 30 years on the job, says he's pulling out, too. In Los Angeles, the ICE website shows that 12,741 immigrants have been deported because of the program since August, 2009, but one-fourth, or 2,961, had no criminal convictions at all. We hear from both sheriffs, and from an organization that gathered much of the data on Secure Communities from ICE files under the Freedom of Information Act.
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