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Por Elvira Arellano
11 de Julio, 2015
Cuando entré en el santuario en 2005 el Consejo Municipal de Chicago expresó su apoyo y declaró que Chicago ya era una “ciudad de santuario” en la cual la policía municipal negaría cooperar con los agentes federales de inmigración. Cuando el gobierno federal empezó a implementar su programa de “Comunidades Seguras” la importante del movimiento de las ciudades de santuarios aumentó, pues el gobierno empezaba a compartir su información con corporaciones municipales de policía, y empezó la práctica de retener a indocumentados arrestados hasta permitir que los agentes de inmigración los recogiera.
El movimiento resistió. Ciudades en todo el país aprobaron medidas que prohibieron que sus policías retuvieron presos para ser transferidos las autoridades migratorias. Pudimos citar los casos de miles de personas que fueron detenidas por infracciones de tránsito, entregadas a los agentes migratorios, y luego deportados, separándolos de las familias que trabajaban para apoyar.[...]
By Elvira Arellano
July 11, 2015
After I went into sanctuary in 2005 the Chicago City Council went on record in my support and declared Chicago a “sanctuary city” in which local police would not work as agents for the federal immigration department. The idea of a sanctuary city grew in importance as the federal government began the secure communities program, merging information sharing with local police departments and creating the policy of “holding” undocumented arrestees until ICE could come and pick them up.
The movement fought back. Cities across the country passed legislation barring their police forces from holding arrestees for ICE detention. We cited thousands of people who were picked up on traffic violations, turned over to ICE, deported and separated from the families they were working to support.[...]
Read the full article/Lea el artículo completo:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sanctuarymovement/kTY7V-XD5GE
Showing posts with label Secure Communities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Secure Communities. Show all posts
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Study: Deportations don’t lead to lower crime rates
By Kirk Semple, New York Times
September 3, 2014
Six years after the federal government opened an immigration enforcement program intended to improve public safety, deporting hundreds of thousands of people, many of them convicted criminals, a new study has concluded that the program has had “no observable effect on the overall crime rate.”
The finding “calls into question the long-standing assumption that deporting noncitizens who commit crimes is an effective crime-control strategy,” said the study, conducted by two law professors at the University of Chicago and New York University.
The analysis, scheduled for publication in the November issue of The Journal of Law and Economics, a journal for peer-reviewed research, coincides with the Obama administration’s internal review of the program, known as Secure Communities. Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary, has suggested that he might overhaul the program, saying it needs “a fresh start.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/us/deportations-dont-lower-crime-rates-study-says.html
The paper is available at:
http://www.law.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyprofiles/adamcox/securecommunities
September 3, 2014
Six years after the federal government opened an immigration enforcement program intended to improve public safety, deporting hundreds of thousands of people, many of them convicted criminals, a new study has concluded that the program has had “no observable effect on the overall crime rate.”
The finding “calls into question the long-standing assumption that deporting noncitizens who commit crimes is an effective crime-control strategy,” said the study, conducted by two law professors at the University of Chicago and New York University.
The analysis, scheduled for publication in the November issue of The Journal of Law and Economics, a journal for peer-reviewed research, coincides with the Obama administration’s internal review of the program, known as Secure Communities. Jeh Johnson, the Homeland Security secretary, has suggested that he might overhaul the program, saying it needs “a fresh start.” [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/04/us/deportations-dont-lower-crime-rates-study-says.html
The paper is available at:
http://www.law.nyu.edu/faculty/facultyprofiles/adamcox/securecommunities
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Know Your Rights and Secure Your Own Community
By the New York State Youth Leadership Council
May 15, 2012
Starting today the program Secure Communities will be implemented in New York City; this means that local police will be required to send fingerprints of everyone arrested to immigration officials. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will then check to see whether that person should be deported. The program has already been in effect in 31 counties, including Nassau, Dutchess and Westchester and now New York City. The activation of Secure Communities in New York City is a threat to our immigrant communities leading to the deportation of many immigrants who pose no public safety threat to the city, state, or country at all, separating more families, inciting ethnic and racial profiling and negatively affecting the relationship between police and our immigrant communities.
Know Your Rights: What To Do If You're Stopped By Police, Immigration Agents or the FBI
Following are some tips created by the ACLU for interacting with police and understanding your rights.
YOUR RIGHTS
- You have the right to remain silent. If you wish to exercise that right, say so out loud.
- You have the right to refuse to consent to a search of yourself, your car or your home.
- If you are not under arrest, you have the right to calmly leave.
- You have the right to a lawyer if you are arrested. Ask for one immediately.
- Regardless of your immigration or citizenship status, you have constitutional rights.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Do stay calm and be polite.
- Do not interfere with or obstruct the police.
- Do not lie or give false documents.
- Do prepare yourself and your family in case you are arrested.
- Do remember the details of the encounter.
- Do file a written complaint or call your local ACLU if you feel your rights have been violated.
IF YOU ARE QUESTIONED ABOUT YOUR IMMIGRATION STATUS
You have the right to remain silent and do not have to discuss your immigration or citizenship status with police, immigration agents or any other officials. You do not have to answer questions about where you were born, whether you are a U.S. citizen, or how you entered the country. (Separate rules apply at international borders and airports, and for individuals on certain nonimmigrant visas, including tourists and business travelers.)
If you are not a U.S. citizen and an immigration agent requests your immigration papers, you must show them if you have them with you. If you are over 18, carry your immigration documents with you at all times. If you do not have immigration papers, say you want to remain silent.
Do not lie about your citizenship status or provide fake documents.
Read more tips when stopped for questioning HERE.
IN DEPORTATION?
Are you in deportation proceedings or do you know someone who is? As part of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance effort, our sister national organization, we are willing to help you on any deportation case as long as you and your community are willing to learn. On May 4th the NIYA launched the program Secure Your Own Community or SYOC.
It's very important for all of us to know how to secure our own community because we know full well no one else will do it for us. If you or someone you know is facing deportation and you'd like your case to be dismissed then please complete this form and we'll be in touch with you.
There is never too much to do, if you know of anyone in deportation and they'd like their case dismissed please get in touch with us. Don't wait until it's too late. You can either fill out this quick 8 question intake form [...] and we'll be in touch with you.
Stay tuned for more updates and share the “Know Your Rights” info with your family, friends and community. Contact us if you have any questions:
info@nysylc.org
Warm Regards,
The NYSYLC Team
May 15, 2012
Starting today the program Secure Communities will be implemented in New York City; this means that local police will be required to send fingerprints of everyone arrested to immigration officials. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will then check to see whether that person should be deported. The program has already been in effect in 31 counties, including Nassau, Dutchess and Westchester and now New York City. The activation of Secure Communities in New York City is a threat to our immigrant communities leading to the deportation of many immigrants who pose no public safety threat to the city, state, or country at all, separating more families, inciting ethnic and racial profiling and negatively affecting the relationship between police and our immigrant communities.
Know Your Rights: What To Do If You're Stopped By Police, Immigration Agents or the FBI
Following are some tips created by the ACLU for interacting with police and understanding your rights.
YOUR RIGHTS
- You have the right to remain silent. If you wish to exercise that right, say so out loud.
- You have the right to refuse to consent to a search of yourself, your car or your home.
- If you are not under arrest, you have the right to calmly leave.
- You have the right to a lawyer if you are arrested. Ask for one immediately.
- Regardless of your immigration or citizenship status, you have constitutional rights.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Do stay calm and be polite.
- Do not interfere with or obstruct the police.
- Do not lie or give false documents.
- Do prepare yourself and your family in case you are arrested.
- Do remember the details of the encounter.
- Do file a written complaint or call your local ACLU if you feel your rights have been violated.
IF YOU ARE QUESTIONED ABOUT YOUR IMMIGRATION STATUS
You have the right to remain silent and do not have to discuss your immigration or citizenship status with police, immigration agents or any other officials. You do not have to answer questions about where you were born, whether you are a U.S. citizen, or how you entered the country. (Separate rules apply at international borders and airports, and for individuals on certain nonimmigrant visas, including tourists and business travelers.)
If you are not a U.S. citizen and an immigration agent requests your immigration papers, you must show them if you have them with you. If you are over 18, carry your immigration documents with you at all times. If you do not have immigration papers, say you want to remain silent.
Do not lie about your citizenship status or provide fake documents.
Read more tips when stopped for questioning HERE.
IN DEPORTATION?
Are you in deportation proceedings or do you know someone who is? As part of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance effort, our sister national organization, we are willing to help you on any deportation case as long as you and your community are willing to learn. On May 4th the NIYA launched the program Secure Your Own Community or SYOC.
It's very important for all of us to know how to secure our own community because we know full well no one else will do it for us. If you or someone you know is facing deportation and you'd like your case to be dismissed then please complete this form and we'll be in touch with you.
There is never too much to do, if you know of anyone in deportation and they'd like their case dismissed please get in touch with us. Don't wait until it's too late. You can either fill out this quick 8 question intake form [...] and we'll be in touch with you.
Stay tuned for more updates and share the “Know Your Rights” info with your family, friends and community. Contact us if you have any questions:
info@nysylc.org
Warm Regards,
The NYSYLC Team
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
U.S. Forced to Release New “Embarrassing” Documents On Controversial Secure Communities Program
ShareDocuments Show Broad Deception and Disagreement Within Federal Agencies on Opt Out; Raise New Questions About ICE’s Mandatory Stance
Press release, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
Contact: press@ccrjustice.org
New York, August 18, 2011- In the wake of protests and civil disobedience in Chicago yesterday and across the country criticizing the Obama administration’s Secure Communities program, immigrant advocates called on the government to turn over remaining documents about the program sought in a Freedom of Information lawsuit and to halt the controversial program.
A batch of unredacted documents released by court order this week, which federal district court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin called “embarrassing,” included acknowledgement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorneys that they would have to “rewrite” memos on whether the program is mandatory for states and localities and revealed schisms between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the right of states and localities to opt out of the program. [...]
Read the full press release:
http://www.ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/u.s.-forced-release-new-%E2%80%9Cembarrassing%E2%80%9D-documents-controversial-secure-communities-program
Secure Communities and Next Generation Identification:
The FBI’s “Big Brother” Surveillance Agenda
July 6, 2011 Fact Sheet from CCR, Cardozo School of Law, NDLON
Documents disclosed as a result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic reveal that Secure Communities goes far beyond immigration
enforcement. The program is part of a larger secretive information-collection project that profoundly undermines democracy and liberty. [...]
Read the full fact sheet:
http://uncoverthetruth.org/wp-content/uploads/7-6-11-Scomm-NGI-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Press release, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)
Contact: press@ccrjustice.org
New York, August 18, 2011- In the wake of protests and civil disobedience in Chicago yesterday and across the country criticizing the Obama administration’s Secure Communities program, immigrant advocates called on the government to turn over remaining documents about the program sought in a Freedom of Information lawsuit and to halt the controversial program.
A batch of unredacted documents released by court order this week, which federal district court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin called “embarrassing,” included acknowledgement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attorneys that they would have to “rewrite” memos on whether the program is mandatory for states and localities and revealed schisms between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the right of states and localities to opt out of the program. [...]
Read the full press release:
http://www.ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/u.s.-forced-release-new-%E2%80%9Cembarrassing%E2%80%9D-documents-controversial-secure-communities-program
Secure Communities and Next Generation Identification:
The FBI’s “Big Brother” Surveillance Agenda
July 6, 2011 Fact Sheet from CCR, Cardozo School of Law, NDLON
Documents disclosed as a result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic reveal that Secure Communities goes far beyond immigration
enforcement. The program is part of a larger secretive information-collection project that profoundly undermines democracy and liberty. [...]
Read the full fact sheet:
http://uncoverthetruth.org/wp-content/uploads/7-6-11-Scomm-NGI-Fact-Sheet.pdf
Sunday, August 21, 2011
White House Slows Deportations as Pressure on "Secure Communities" Mounts
Dream Act students won't be deportation targets, officials say
Los Angeles Times
August 18, 2011
The Obama administration announced Thursday that undocumented students and other low-priority immigration offenders would not be targeted for deportation under enforcement programs.
The announcement marks further steps to stop the deportation of people it considers "low-priority" immigrants like so-called Dream Act-eligible students and those with long-standing family ties in the country. These eligible students are those who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children by their parents. [...]
Read the full article:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/dream-act-students-not-targeted-for-deportatiom.html
Obama Administration Curtails Deportations of Non-Criminal Immigrants
By Jake Tapper, ABC News
August 18, 2011
The Obama administration today announced it will no longer actively seek to deport illegal immigrants who don’t have criminal records and that it will review all existing deportation cases involving non-criminal immigrants on a case-by-case basis.
The news follows months of intense pressure from immigrant advocates who had urged the president to use his administrative authority to refocus the government's limited law enforcement resources while congressional gridlock over a comprehensive immigration system overhaul persists. [...]
Read the full article:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/obama-administration-halts-deportations-of-non-criminal-immigrants.html
Los Angeles Times
August 18, 2011
The Obama administration announced Thursday that undocumented students and other low-priority immigration offenders would not be targeted for deportation under enforcement programs.
The announcement marks further steps to stop the deportation of people it considers "low-priority" immigrants like so-called Dream Act-eligible students and those with long-standing family ties in the country. These eligible students are those who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children by their parents. [...]
Read the full article:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/dream-act-students-not-targeted-for-deportatiom.html
Obama Administration Curtails Deportations of Non-Criminal Immigrants
By Jake Tapper, ABC News
August 18, 2011
The Obama administration today announced it will no longer actively seek to deport illegal immigrants who don’t have criminal records and that it will review all existing deportation cases involving non-criminal immigrants on a case-by-case basis.
The news follows months of intense pressure from immigrant advocates who had urged the president to use his administrative authority to refocus the government's limited law enforcement resources while congressional gridlock over a comprehensive immigration system overhaul persists. [...]
Read the full article:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/obama-administration-halts-deportations-of-non-criminal-immigrants.html
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Resistance Widens to Obama Initiative on Criminal Immigrants
By Julia Preston, New York Times
August 13, 2011
BOSTON — Mayor Thomas Menino, who often invokes his heritage as the grandson of an Italian immigrant, was one of the first local leaders in the country to embrace a federal program intended to improve community safety by deporting dangerous immigrant criminals.
But five years after Boston became a testing ground for the fingerprinting program, known as Secure Communities, Mr. Menino is one of the latest local officials to sour on it and seek to withdraw. He found that many immigrants the program deported from Boston, though here illegally, had committed no crimes. The mayor believed it was eroding hard-earned ties between Boston’s police force and its melting-pot mix of ethnic neighborhoods.
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/us/politics/13secure.html
August 13, 2011
BOSTON — Mayor Thomas Menino, who often invokes his heritage as the grandson of an Italian immigrant, was one of the first local leaders in the country to embrace a federal program intended to improve community safety by deporting dangerous immigrant criminals.
But five years after Boston became a testing ground for the fingerprinting program, known as Secure Communities, Mr. Menino is one of the latest local officials to sour on it and seek to withdraw. He found that many immigrants the program deported from Boston, though here illegally, had committed no crimes. The mayor believed it was eroding hard-earned ties between Boston’s police force and its melting-pot mix of ethnic neighborhoods.
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/13/us/politics/13secure.html
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Protest Demands Obama Stop Immigrant Deportations
The Real News Network
July 29, 2011
The "Secure Communities" program of ICE is leading to the deportations of thousands.
View a video report on the July 28 protest at the White House:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7101
July 29, 2011
The "Secure Communities" program of ICE is leading to the deportations of thousands.
View a video report on the July 28 protest at the White House:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7101
Saturday, July 23, 2011
New Documents Reveal Behind-the-Scenes FBI Role in Controversial Secure Communities Deportation Program (Press Release)
Contact: B. Loewe, NDLON, 773.791.4668; Jen Nessel, CCR 212.614.6449, jnessel@ccrjustice.org ; David Lerner, Riptide Communications 212.260.5000, dlerner@riptideonline.com
FBI Views Secure Communities as First Step in “Next Generation Identification” (NGI) Surveillance Project to Amass Expansive Database of Personal Biometric Information
Opt-Out Policy for Secure Communities Set by Obscure FBI Panel, Not by Law
July 6, 2011, New York and Washington – Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic show that the controversial Secure Communities deportation program (S-Comm), designed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to target people for deportation, is also a key component of a little-known FBI project to accumulate a massive store of personal biometric information on citizens and non-citizens alike.
According to the documents, S-Comm is “only the first of a number of biometric interoperability systems being brought online by the FBI ‘Next Generation Identification’ (NGI) project.” NGI will expand the FBI’s existing fingerprint database to add iris scans, palm prints, and facial recognition information for a wide range of people. [...]
Read the full press release:
http://uncoverthetruth.org/featured/new-documents-reveal-behind-the-scenes-fbi-role-in-controversial-secure-communities-deportation-program-pr/
To read FOIA documents and information about the case NDLON v. ICE brought by CCR, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic, visit CCR’s legal case page:
http://www.ccrjustice.org/secure-communities
FBI Views Secure Communities as First Step in “Next Generation Identification” (NGI) Surveillance Project to Amass Expansive Database of Personal Biometric Information
Opt-Out Policy for Secure Communities Set by Obscure FBI Panel, Not by Law
July 6, 2011, New York and Washington – Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic show that the controversial Secure Communities deportation program (S-Comm), designed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to target people for deportation, is also a key component of a little-known FBI project to accumulate a massive store of personal biometric information on citizens and non-citizens alike.
According to the documents, S-Comm is “only the first of a number of biometric interoperability systems being brought online by the FBI ‘Next Generation Identification’ (NGI) project.” NGI will expand the FBI’s existing fingerprint database to add iris scans, palm prints, and facial recognition information for a wide range of people. [...]
Read the full press release:
http://uncoverthetruth.org/featured/new-documents-reveal-behind-the-scenes-fbi-role-in-controversial-secure-communities-deportation-program-pr/
To read FOIA documents and information about the case NDLON v. ICE brought by CCR, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic, visit CCR’s legal case page:
http://www.ccrjustice.org/secure-communities
Saturday, June 18, 2011
New York Elected Officials and Advocates Lambast ICE’s Alleged Improvements to “Secure Communities” Deportation Program
Response to Alleged Improvements to S-Comm
June 17, 2011
by New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 17, 2011
Contact:
Michelle Fei, mfei@immigrantdefenseproject.org, 484.466.6334
Mizue Aizeki, maizeki@nmcir.org, 914.471.2775
New York, NY (June 17, 2011) – A wide coalition of immigrant advocacy groups, joined by prominent elected officials, today reacted with discontent, anger, and frustration at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s announcement about alleged improvements to the mass deportation program known as “Secure Communities.” Particularly as the Inspector General plans an investigation into the program, advocates protested against the surface-level modifications that ICE proposed and called for a national end to Secure Communities. [...]
Read the full press release:
http://newsanctuarynyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/new-york-elected-officials-and-advocates-lambast-ice%E2%80%99s-alleged-improvements-to-secure-communities-deportation-program/
June 17, 2011
by New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 17, 2011
Contact:
Michelle Fei, mfei@immigrantdefenseproject.org, 484.466.6334
Mizue Aizeki, maizeki@nmcir.org, 914.471.2775
New York, NY (June 17, 2011) – A wide coalition of immigrant advocacy groups, joined by prominent elected officials, today reacted with discontent, anger, and frustration at Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s announcement about alleged improvements to the mass deportation program known as “Secure Communities.” Particularly as the Inspector General plans an investigation into the program, advocates protested against the surface-level modifications that ICE proposed and called for a national end to Secure Communities. [...]
Read the full press release:
http://newsanctuarynyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/new-york-elected-officials-and-advocates-lambast-ice%E2%80%99s-alleged-improvements-to-secure-communities-deportation-program/
Monday, June 13, 2011
Immigration Program Is Rejected by Third State
By Julia Preston, New York Times
June 6, 2011
Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has decided the state will not participate in a fingerprint-sharing program that is central to the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement strategy, dealing a new political blow to a program that has met rising resistance nationwide.
Massachusetts is the third state to pull out of the program, called Secure Communities, after Gov. Pat Quinn canceled it in Illinois in May and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo suspended New York’s participation last week. All three are Democrats from states with large immigrant populations, and they are close allies of President Obama, including on immigration issues. [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/us/politics/07immig.html
June 6, 2011
Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has decided the state will not participate in a fingerprint-sharing program that is central to the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement strategy, dealing a new political blow to a program that has met rising resistance nationwide.
Massachusetts is the third state to pull out of the program, called Secure Communities, after Gov. Pat Quinn canceled it in Illinois in May and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo suspended New York’s participation last week. All three are Democrats from states with large immigrant populations, and they are close allies of President Obama, including on immigration issues. [...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/us/politics/07immig.html
Monday, June 6, 2011
Faith Leaders Applaud New York’s Suspension of Deportation Program
by New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC
June 1, 2011
New York, NY (June 1, 2011) – Faith leaders today voiced enthusiastic support for Governor Cuomo’s suspension of the mass deportation program known as “Secure Communities.”
“Our spiritual mission is to welcome the stranger among us, and to clothe and feed them. Exiling immigrants is against our principles,” said Reverend Susan Switzer, Co-Chair of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City. “For too long, we have seen our congregations disappear before our eyes because of these deportation programs. We are grateful Governor Cuomo has taken a courageous stance to pull New York out of Secure Communities.” [...]
Read the full press release:
http://newsanctuarynyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/faith-leaders-applaud-new-york%e2%80%99s-suspension-of-deportation-program/
Gov. Cuomo pulls New York out of federal Secure Communities immigration fingerprinting program
BY Kenneth Lovett and Larry Mcshane, New York Daily News
June 1, 2011
New York State is suspending its participation in the controversial Secure Communities program that shared the fingerprints of anyone arrested with immigration officials.
Gov. Cuomo made the announcement Wednesday, saying there's mounting evidence the program, rolled out just five months ago, isn't working. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/06/01/2011-06-01_gov_cuomo_pulls_new_york_out_of_federal_secure_communities_immigration_fingerpri.html
June 1, 2011
New York, NY (June 1, 2011) – Faith leaders today voiced enthusiastic support for Governor Cuomo’s suspension of the mass deportation program known as “Secure Communities.”
“Our spiritual mission is to welcome the stranger among us, and to clothe and feed them. Exiling immigrants is against our principles,” said Reverend Susan Switzer, Co-Chair of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City. “For too long, we have seen our congregations disappear before our eyes because of these deportation programs. We are grateful Governor Cuomo has taken a courageous stance to pull New York out of Secure Communities.” [...]
Read the full press release:
http://newsanctuarynyc.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/faith-leaders-applaud-new-york%e2%80%99s-suspension-of-deportation-program/
Gov. Cuomo pulls New York out of federal Secure Communities immigration fingerprinting program
BY Kenneth Lovett and Larry Mcshane, New York Daily News
June 1, 2011
New York State is suspending its participation in the controversial Secure Communities program that shared the fingerprints of anyone arrested with immigration officials.
Gov. Cuomo made the announcement Wednesday, saying there's mounting evidence the program, rolled out just five months ago, isn't working. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/06/01/2011-06-01_gov_cuomo_pulls_new_york_out_of_federal_secure_communities_immigration_fingerpri.html
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Stop S-Comm, protect immigrant victims
Petition against the "Secure Communities" program from Jackie Mahendra and Change.org
When an L.A. woman named Isaura Garcia finally worked up the nerve to call 911 -- after two years of brutal beatings by her husband -- her fingerprints were sent to a federal database for immigration checks. Even though Isaura only called the police to protect herself, she was quickly targeted for deportation under a program known as “Secure Communities,” or S-Comm.
Isaura is just one of the tens of thousands of immigrants in the United States who reports crimes to the police. They are put at serious risk by S-Comm, the controversial deportation program that forces collaboration between local police and federal immigration agents.
This is one reason why Illinois has pulled out of the program -- and why communities in Maryland, New York, and California are challenging it. It's also a reason why Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California and Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey demanded a thorough investigation into the program. And why the federal government is finally preparing one.
Given all the controversy, it's unbelievable that this mass deportation program is still spreading across the country, with new programs taking root every month.
The National Day Laborer Organizing Network has already gathered 2,500 signatures on its Change.org petition demanding a moratorium on the so-called “Secure Communities” program, at least during this pending investigation. Will you add your name now?
Luckily for domestic violence survivor Isaura Garcia, a host of great organizations went public with her case, and she no longer faces deportation. Still, Isaura worries – and rightly so -- that many other women stuck in violent situations like hers will be forced simply to bear the abuse rather than run the risk of being banished from their families in the U.S.
Not only is this unjust, but it makes entire communities less safe when residents are afraid to turn in criminals and work with the police to solve violent crimes.
Stand with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and sign the petition on Change.org calling for an immediate moratorium on the dangerous S-Comm program:
http://www.change.org/petitions/put-s-comm-on-ice-call-for-a-moratorium-on-the-mass-deportation-program
Thanks for taking action,
Jackie and the Change.org Team
When an L.A. woman named Isaura Garcia finally worked up the nerve to call 911 -- after two years of brutal beatings by her husband -- her fingerprints were sent to a federal database for immigration checks. Even though Isaura only called the police to protect herself, she was quickly targeted for deportation under a program known as “Secure Communities,” or S-Comm.
Isaura is just one of the tens of thousands of immigrants in the United States who reports crimes to the police. They are put at serious risk by S-Comm, the controversial deportation program that forces collaboration between local police and federal immigration agents.
This is one reason why Illinois has pulled out of the program -- and why communities in Maryland, New York, and California are challenging it. It's also a reason why Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California and Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey demanded a thorough investigation into the program. And why the federal government is finally preparing one.
Given all the controversy, it's unbelievable that this mass deportation program is still spreading across the country, with new programs taking root every month.
The National Day Laborer Organizing Network has already gathered 2,500 signatures on its Change.org petition demanding a moratorium on the so-called “Secure Communities” program, at least during this pending investigation. Will you add your name now?
Luckily for domestic violence survivor Isaura Garcia, a host of great organizations went public with her case, and she no longer faces deportation. Still, Isaura worries – and rightly so -- that many other women stuck in violent situations like hers will be forced simply to bear the abuse rather than run the risk of being banished from their families in the U.S.
Not only is this unjust, but it makes entire communities less safe when residents are afraid to turn in criminals and work with the police to solve violent crimes.
Stand with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and sign the petition on Change.org calling for an immediate moratorium on the dangerous S-Comm program:
http://www.change.org/petitions/put-s-comm-on-ice-call-for-a-moratorium-on-the-mass-deportation-program
Thanks for taking action,
Jackie and the Change.org Team
Monday, May 16, 2011
Illinois withdraws from federal immigration program
By Antonio Olivo, Chicago Tribune
6:50 a.m. CDT, May 5, 2011
Gov. Pat Quinn and state lawmakers Wednesday cast Illinois as a sympathetic voice in the nation's volatile immigration debate with two actions that run counter to a wave of pro-enforcement measures approved or under consideration in Arizona and other states.
Quinn's office on Wednesday sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security declaring the state's formal withdrawal from Secure Communities, a federal deportation program that targets hardened criminals but has also been used against illegal immigrants arrested for misdemeanor crimes. [...]
Nearly a third of all illegal immigrants deported out of Illinois under the program have never been convicted of any crime, the letter stated, citing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement figures. Quinn's office suspended the state's role in the program in November amid concerns about its effectiveness. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-state-dream-act-0505-20110504,0,4942631.story
6:50 a.m. CDT, May 5, 2011
Gov. Pat Quinn and state lawmakers Wednesday cast Illinois as a sympathetic voice in the nation's volatile immigration debate with two actions that run counter to a wave of pro-enforcement measures approved or under consideration in Arizona and other states.
Quinn's office on Wednesday sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security declaring the state's formal withdrawal from Secure Communities, a federal deportation program that targets hardened criminals but has also been used against illegal immigrants arrested for misdemeanor crimes. [...]
Nearly a third of all illegal immigrants deported out of Illinois under the program have never been convicted of any crime, the letter stated, citing federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement figures. Quinn's office suspended the state's role in the program in November amid concerns about its effectiveness. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-state-dream-act-0505-20110504,0,4942631.story
Monday, March 7, 2011
Police Chiefs Wary of Immigration Role
By Julia Preston, New York TimesMarch 3, 2011
As many state legislatures consider laws to expand the role of local police departments in immigration control, police chiefs across the country say they are reluctant to take on these tasks and want clear lines drawn between local crime-fighting and federal immigration enforcement, according to a new report by a police research group.
Dozens of police department commanders who participated in the report recommended that local officers should be explicitly prohibited from arresting people solely because of their immigration status, and should have orders to protect victims and witnesses regardless of that status. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/us/04enforcement.html
Read the report:
http://www.policeforum.org/library/immigration/PERFImmigrationReportMarch2011.pdf
As many state legislatures consider laws to expand the role of local police departments in immigration control, police chiefs across the country say they are reluctant to take on these tasks and want clear lines drawn between local crime-fighting and federal immigration enforcement, according to a new report by a police research group.
Dozens of police department commanders who participated in the report recommended that local officers should be explicitly prohibited from arresting people solely because of their immigration status, and should have orders to protect victims and witnesses regardless of that status. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/us/04enforcement.html
Read the report:
http://www.policeforum.org/library/immigration/PERFImmigrationReportMarch2011.pdf
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Report Questions the System Used to Flag Rikers Island Inmates for Deportation
by Sam Dolnick, New York Times
November 10, 2010
As the Obama administration steps up efforts to deport immigrants held on criminal charges, federal officials in New York City have long been on the job. At the city’s main jail on Rikers Island, immigration officers comb through lists of foreign-born inmates, then question, detain and deport about 3,200 of them a year.
Immigration authorities say they decide whom to flag by considering the severity of the crime and the inmate’s criminal history and immigration record. Their top priority, they say, is removing the most dangerous offenders.
But a new analysis of Rikers Island statistics by Justice Strategies, a prisoner advocacy group based in New York, shows that among inmates held on drug charges, those accused of misdemeanors were chosen for deportation proceedings more often than those charged with felonies. [...]
Read the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/nyregion/11rikers.html?ref=nyregion
Read the report, by Aarti Shahani:
http://www.justicestrategies.org/sites/default/files/JusticeStrategies-DrugDeportations-PrelimFindings.pdf
November 10, 2010
As the Obama administration steps up efforts to deport immigrants held on criminal charges, federal officials in New York City have long been on the job. At the city’s main jail on Rikers Island, immigration officers comb through lists of foreign-born inmates, then question, detain and deport about 3,200 of them a year.
Immigration authorities say they decide whom to flag by considering the severity of the crime and the inmate’s criminal history and immigration record. Their top priority, they say, is removing the most dangerous offenders.
But a new analysis of Rikers Island statistics by Justice Strategies, a prisoner advocacy group based in New York, shows that among inmates held on drug charges, those accused of misdemeanors were chosen for deportation proceedings more often than those charged with felonies. [...]
Read the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/nyregion/11rikers.html?ref=nyregion
Read the report, by Aarti Shahani:
http://www.justicestrategies.org/sites/default/files/JusticeStrategies-DrugDeportations-PrelimFindings.pdf
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