Deport only criminals who pose real threat

ALEJANDRO ESCALONA alejandroescalona@comcast.net
Mar 30, 2011 09:43PM

Susana Ramirez, who lives in Harvard, is not a murderer or a rapist and certainly does not fit the profile of a terrorist. But last year, Ramirez committed a minor traffic violation while on her way to pick up her 5-year-old daughter at school. Now she faces deportation to Mexico by the end of the year.

Ramirez is one of thousands of undocumented immigrants without criminal records caught in the dragnet of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s controversial “Secure Communitiesâ€