Thread: Fayette County the first Kentucky I.C.E. Secure Community

Readout of Secretary Napolitano's Visit to Kentucky

Release Date: October 7, 2010

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010

Louisville, Ky. - Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today visited Lexington, Ky., to meet with state and local law enforcement partners and business leaders to discuss the Obama administration’s strong commitment to smart, effective enforcement of America’s immigration laws. She also visited Louisville, Ky., to meet with first responders and community leaders to discuss the importance of informing and empowering citizens and communities both before and during an emergency.

In Lexington, Secretary Napolitano highlighted the first ever implementation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities program in the commonwealth of Kentucky in Fayette County, Ky. Secure Communities allows ICE to use biometric information to identify criminal aliens in state prisons and local jails.

“The Obama administration has fundamentally changed the federal government’s approach to immigration enforcement—both at and within our nation’s borders,â€

Thank God! We will see how this well this works,because if Lex isnt a sanctuary city,it sure seems like it!! Medicaid and food stamps for more illegals than you can count!!!!

Originally Posted by strugglingcitizen

Thank God! We will see how this well this works,because if Lex isnt a sanctuary city,it sure seems like it!! Medicaid and food stamps for more illegals than you can count!!!!

If you see any news about this in the local papers please post it here for us.
THANKS

Thursday, Oct. 07, 2010

Lexington jail's new system can check status of immigrants

By Jennifer Hewlett - jhewlett@herald-leader.com

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, in Lexington on Thursday to talk to local leaders, announced a new system for the Fayette County Detention Center that allows officials to more easily identify people who have broken the law somewhere else and the immigration status of aliens who are booked into the facility.

Under the new system, fingerprints taken from individuals as they are booked into the jail will be checked against databases maintained by the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and Kentucky State Police, according to Fayette County Sheriff Kathy Witt, whose deputies will be handling the new system at the jail. If the integrated records check results in a match, local and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are notified simultaneously so they can act quickly, a Homeland Security Web site indicates.

Lexington joins about 660 jurisdictions in having the new system, Napolitano said. Homeland Security wants every jurisdiction in the country to have it by 2013.

http://www.kentucky.com/2010/10/07/1469 ... z11iju5Pst

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