Thread: Secure Communities takes a political casualty

Secure Communities takes a political casualty

March 7, 2011 | 1:38 PM
By Rina Palta

City and police officials across the country are realizing that adding immigration enforcement to police duties not be as good an idea as it once seemed. Increasing local resistance to the federal Secure Communities program, which shares fingerprints of all arrestees with immigration control, has produced at least one political casualty. A little over a week after criticizing Providence’s Public Safety Commissioner for requesting clarification from the Justice Department on the “opt outâ€

Other States don't seem to have a problem with this safe community stuff do they? Why my State?

Originally Posted by Kiara

Other States don't seem to have a problem with this safe community stuff do they? Why my State?

id suggest that you call the Providence police and ask to speak with the Public safety Commissioner.

Call your stupid Governor's Office. he told the state no more illegal immigration enforcement allowed

Originally Posted by Kiara

Other States don't seem to have a problem with this safe community stuff do they? Why my State? :(

Several counties in other states have tried to withdraw from the program or never sign up.

Originally Posted by Kiara

Other States don't seem to have a problem with this safe community stuff do they? Why my State?

It seems to me that many Law Enforcement Agencies nationwide are subject to political pressure.

Dougherty had been Superintendent for just two weeks, but ran into trouble once his pro-Secure Communities stance became public.

So in effect the ruling party of the day gets to set "POLICY" as far as any law is concerned. The citizens of NYC and NYS have never had a say as far as the sanctuary policies put into effect here.

The fact that we, the citizens of NY, were able to stop then Gov. Spitzer from giving IAs driver license's was surprising to me. 70 to 80% of us were against that. Wouldn't it correlate that just as many would oppose SANCTUARY?

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Secure Communities takes a political casualty

The resignation comes on the heels of a report issued by the Police Executive Research Forum—a national research and advocacy organization of progressive police administrators—detailing increasing wariness of local police and city officials to mix immigration control with policing.

This is a bogus issue. Police have the time to run a check whenever people are pulled over. It wouldn't take more than a minute more to contact ICE.
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