Immigrant Groups Criticize Federal Government’s
Fingerprint Program Targeting Illegal Aliens
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
……Under the program, the fingerprints of everyone who is
booked into jail for any crime are run against FBI criminal history records and
Department of Homeland Security immigration records to determine who is in the
country illegally and whether they've been arrested previously. Most
jurisdictions are not included in the program, but Immigration and Customs
Enforcement has been expanding the initiative.
Since 2007, 467 jurisdictions in 26 states have joined. ICE has said it plans
to have it in every jail in the country by 2013. Secure Communities is currently
being phased into the places which the government sees as having the greatest
need for it based on population estimates of illegal immigrants and crime
statistics.
Since everyone arrested would be screened, the program could easily deport more
people than Arizona's
new law,……