AUTHORITIES MISTAKENLY ARREST FOUR U.S. CITIZENS FOR BEING UNDOCUMENTED – Fox News 12/15/2011
Authorities in Southern California wrongly arrested four U.S. citizens through the Secure Communites federal immigration enforcement program, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.
The arrests offer another point of tension between immigrant rights groups and Homeland Security, especially after President Barack Obama’s administration said the highly criticized local-federal immigration enforcement program would only focus on undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records.
Secure Communities, administered by U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement, allows fingerprint analysis to identify undocumented immigrants in county jails.
Immigrant right groups say Secure Communities can discourage immigrants from reporting crimes and can lead to the deportation of people who haven’t been convicted of anything.
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