Thread: Scott Brown: State should join Secure Communities now

Scott Brown: State should join Secure Communities now.

By Brian Benson/Daily News staff
Milford Daily News
Posted Feb 22, 2012 @ 12:00 AM

Responding to a recent Milford stabbing that police say involved an illegal immigrant, U.S. Sen. Scott Brown yesterday reiterated his stance that Secure Communities must be implemented throughout the state.

“This latest incident is proof that we need to do more to enforce our immigration laws,” Brown said in a statement.

David Segundo Dutan Guaman, 23, of 23 Water St., Apt. 1, was arrested early Saturday morning after police say he stabbed a 21-year-old man in the arm.

“It is unacceptable that there are people in the country illegally who are also committing serious crimes and threatening public safety,” Brown said. “It’s time we applied some common sense before more people are hurt or killed.”

Secure Communities is a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement program that facilitates sharing fingerprints and other data between local police and ICE.

Program opponents have worried it may lead to racial profiling or deporting people who are not convicted of serious crimes. They say it could keep immigrants from reporting crimes.

ICE has said it expects to implement Secure Communities nationwide by 2013. Boston is the only Massachusetts community currently participating.

Milford Police Chief Thomas O’Loughlin said Brown’s statement is important because ICE is implementing the program in locations where there is support for it, and the agency has enough resources to handle an increased volume of data.

“It’s very important,” O’Loughlin said. “We’d like to see it come here soon.”

Officers now share information manually about people they arrest and suspect could be in the country illegally. Under Secure Communities, the information sharing would be automatic for all people arrested, and the time it takes to receive information back from federal authorities would be reduced, O’Loughlin said.

But Secure Communities wouldn’t have necessarily prevented the Dutan Guaman stabbing. ICE focuses the program on deporting violent criminals, and Dutan Guaman had previously been charged only with nonviolent driving offenses, O’Loughlin said.

Dutan Guaman’s brother, Nicolas, is accused of driving the pickup truck that struck and killed Milford’s Matthew Denice when he was riding a motorcycle last August.

“I think it’s very important that, as a state, we take a stand on illegal immigration to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” said Denice’s brother, Michael, who supports Secure Communities. “Until we get to 2013, all citizens are at risk of becoming a victim.”

Brian Benson can be reached at 508-634-7582 or bbenson@wickedlocal.com

Scott Brown: State should join Secure Communities now - Milford, MA - The Milford Daily News

Related: http://www.alipac.us/f12/u-s-sen-sco...-progr-251325/

ALL Along I've been saying, 1st of all, Illegals ARE criminals simply by being in this Country! 2nd These ppl commit So-Called "petty" crimes daily and go Un-pursued..But those "petty" crimes are tests leading up to Major crimes..By then, Victims are Dead, Raped, Kidnapped etc and Its TOO LATE!!
PREVENTION is KEY, They aren't supposed to be here, So? GET THEM OUT!!

How far apart are these things??

1. Public masturbation(perversion) vs Molestation and Rape.

2. Threatning to Beat or Kill vs Murder

What Im getting at is this, WHY do innocent People have to suffer Tragedy Before the Law is Enforced??
WHY should innocent people be KILLED, RAPED or Kidnapped, Children seeing their mother Beaten bloody or Killed, Children Molested or Raped ETC ETC..BEFORE Action is taken??

I know America has these type of criminals, but think, How Much BETTER we could monitor and stop them, If we weren't already Overrun by ILLEGALS doing the same thing!!

We are not only chasing American criminals and footing the bills to Keep them in Prison, but now we are Strained with their ILLEGAL counterparts and the crime they bring to our country!
Not only that, but the Extended families of said Illegals, who may not be physically hurting people, but how about Financially??
We are footing the bill for their Housing, Education, Healthcare & Food....and when they commit a "serious" crime, we foot the bill to keep them here, in American prisons!!!

See the point???