Immigration Reform Examiner
Dave Gibson

Law-abiding Americans should not visit states defying federal immigration law


New York's Gov. Cuomo is choosing to protect illegal aliens...rather than Americans. Credit: Getty Images

Last week, Gov. Duval Patrick (D-MA) became the latest governor to announce that his state would not participate in the federal program which identifies illegal aliens in local jails, known as Secure Communities.

After initially voicing support for Secure Communities, Gov. Patrick held a series of town hall across Massachusetts on the subject in which large numbers of Latinos expressed their anger over the deportation program.

Patrick told reporters: “We run a serious risk of ethnic profiling and frankly fracturing incredibly important relationships in communities that are important for law enforcement.’’

Massachusetts now joins other states in defiance of federal immigration law.

-On June 1, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that his state would no longer participate in the program which uses fingerprint data from inmates in local jails to determine if they are in the country illegally.

The Democratic governor claims that the program is too harmful to “immigrants.â€