Enforcement Desk Weekly Wrap-up: Most of those deported are non-criminals
Majority of those deported are non-criminals A newly released ICE annual report on Immigration Enforcement Actions tallies up apprehensions, detentions and deportations by the Department of Homeland...
View Article“We’re Not Feeling Any Safer,” Finds California Survey of Immigrant Communities
ICE collaboration with local police is causing strong distrust in the immigrant community, according to a study by the California Immigrant Policy Center called “We’re Not Feeling Any Safer.” “The...
View ArticleCounties on West & East Coast Vote to Opt-Out of Secure Communities
Onlookers cheer the Arlington County, VA, board's unanimous vote to opt-out of Secure Communities. Editor’s Update: ICE has since made conflicting comments about whether counties can, or cannot opt-out...
View ArticleICE Attributes Record Deportation Levels to Secure Communities
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today that ICE had the “highest number of removals in our nation’s history” during Fiscal Year 2010 – up to 392,000. During a press...
View ArticleICE Revamps Site, Continues PR Offensive on Secure Communities
ICE's revamped website, www.ice.gov. Editor’s note: The memo was actually dated June 2010. Another memo was removed from the new ICE website. “This program is revolutionary” Sheriff Bud E. Cox Davis...
View ArticleThen & Now: ICE “On the Record” About Opting-Out
An ICE memo on how to opt-out of Secure Communities is no longer online. Elise Foley got a tip that it “mysteriously disappeared” from the re-vamped ICE website. We thought it was worth looking at a...
View ArticleNew York Braces for Fight on Secure Communities
Women in front of NY City Hall call for an end to local police collaboration with ICE. (Photo: Andalusa Knoll/Renée Feltz) This week Make the Road NY renewed its push to remove ICE agents from the...
View ArticleUpdated: Colorado May Limit Immigrants Targeted by “Secure Communities”
Colorado is set to become the first state to put significant limits on Secure Communities, a program that shares local arrest data with federal immigration agents. Protection for domestic violence...
View Article“In Detention”– Jan. 18, 2011
Editor’s note: This is the latest blog post from a 27-year-old college graduate who ran a small construction clean-up company in Arizona until he was stopped by police for a traffic infraction in late...
View ArticleReport: New Obama Budget Should Cut Spending on Failed Immigration Enforcement
As President Obama prepares to release his 2012 budget on Monday, a new report suggests he should re-evaluate the price tag for two immigration enforcement programs that have failed to meet their...
View ArticleConfusion Helped Spread of Secure Communities, Even As Resistance Remains Strong
Many of the released ICE documents were heavily redacted. Newly released records reveal how federal authorities kept altering their stance on whether local police are required to share arrest data with...
View ArticleDocs Show ICE Had a Different Definition of “Voluntary” for Secure...
Many of the documents were heavily redacted. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) recently released 15,000 pages of internal documents about whether participation in Secure Communities...
View ArticleNew Resources on Secure Communities from ICE, ACLU
Sometimes you want to go right to the source. That’s why Deportation Nation offers a Library of primary documents. We’ve just added several recent reports on Secure Communities by non-profits and ICE....
View ArticleEnforcement Desk Round-up: States Push Back Against Secure Communities, More...
Backlash against President Obama’s flagship immigration enforcement program, Secure Communities, has picked up momentum in recent weeks, and sparked new debate on how far the federal government will go...
View ArticleNew Interactive Timeline Tracks Growing Resistance to Secure Communities
Obama’s flagship immigration enforcement program faced criticism from coast to coast on Tuesday. First The New York Times ran an editorial titled “Resistance Grows” that supported Massachusetts for...
View ArticleRound-up: Immigration and Enforcement Systems Under Fire Amidst Record-Number...
On the heels of the Obama administration’s announcement of its latest record-high number of deportations, two television documentaries and a study revealed persistent problems with the nation’s...
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