Liberals Resist Even Dumbed-Down Immigration Checks
by James R. Edwards, Jr.
03/09/2011

Liberal local governments and police agencies don’t like the Homeland Security Department’s Secure Communities program, which involves routinely checking the fingerprints of local prisoners for immigration status.

The Washington Post recently reported that Washington, D.C., and neighboring Arlington County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland, remain cool to participating in the program.

Washington’s Police Chief Cathy Lanier prefers to pick and choose among suspects which ones get Immigration and Customs Enforcement fingerprint checks.

"I was trying to negotiate some kind of agreement before it [Secure Communities participation] became mandatory in 2013,â€