Breaking news from NYIC: Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it would not adopt major recommendations made by the task force established by the agency last year. According to DHS Counselor to Secretary Napolitano, John Sandweg, the agency will continue to pursue low-level offenders, including immigrants convicted of minor traffic offenses....
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task force set up by the Obama administration “sharply criticized” the Department of Homeland Security in its handling of the Secure Communities program, according to the New York Times: In a report released Wednesday on the program, known as Secure Communities, the task force said that immigration officials had eroded public trust with conflicting...
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With the Obama administration under increasing pressure from immigrant organizations after ICE recently made Secure Communities (S-Comm) mandatory nationwide, the White House is hitting back. Cecilia Munoz, the White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, has long been a trusted figure within the Latino community. She worked for years at the National Council of La...
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Immigrant rights organizations around the country are mobilizing against a decision by the Obama administration to make the so-called “Secure Communities” program (S-Comm) mandatory nationally. Monday saw a raucous protest in Los Angeles outside a hearing on S-Comm by a federal task force. Community leaders demanded that the task force members resign in protest...
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On Monday, a large protest against the Secure Communities program took place outside a hearing examining changes in the program. According to the Los Angeles Times: Hundreds gathered in Los Angeles on Monday night for a chance to address a federal task force that will propose changes to a controversial immigration enforcement program. Speaker...
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The New York Times published an editorial on August 14 against “The Widening Dragnet” being set for immigrants by the Obama administration: The Obama administration has decided to stick with Secure Communities, the discredited but rapidly growing immigration-enforcement program that has helped it deport a million people in the last two and a half...
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Now it’s time we send a clear message to the White House about the misnamed “Secure Communities” program: S-comm separates families and destroys communities, violates our due process rights. DHS is using S-comm as a vehicle to meet the agency’s deportation goal of 400,000 people per year, subjecting people to detention and deportation regardless...
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Rhode Island recently obtained data on how the fingerprint data it was sharing with ICE has been used. While the Secure Communities program is described by the Obama administration as directed against dangerous criminals, the Rhode Island stats directly contradict that claim. ICE reviewed  more than 9,000 fingerprints between March 22 and the end...
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The Obama administration has just sent a letter to states saying that it does not need an agreement with the states to enforce Secure Communities program. Here is what the Los Angeles Times says: After months of protest from some Democratic governors, the Obama administration is cancelling more than 40 agreements it has signed...
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With three of the ten biggest states already pulling out of Secure Communities (S-Comm), the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it was making changes to the program to address issues raised by critics. Immigrant rights groups found the changes cosmetic and said they did not address the destruction of police/community relations fostered...
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