Thread: SB 1070 Ruling Refocuses Attention on Secure Communities and ICE

SB 1070 Ruling Refocuses Attention on Secure Communities and ICE

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Adriana Maestas

Monday’s Supreme Court decision that allowed a portion of SB 1070 (Section 2B) to stand included the measure empowering the state to require local law enforcement to check the immigration status of suspects who are detained. If an officer stops someone for a non-immigration related reason and suspects that the person may be undocumented, Arizona law enforcement agents have to determine the immigration status of the person being held.

Immigration advocates have argued that this particular provision of SB 1070 has a similar effect to the Obama administration’s Secure Communities program, which deputizes local law enforcement to act in an immigration capacity. And because of the continued expansion of the Secure Communities (S-Comm) and notice that participation in federal program is mandatory, the lines between the Arizona law and the Obama policy have become blurred.

Andrew Friedman and Nisha Agarwal of the Center for Popular Democracy argue the following in a piece published on Monday in advance of the release of the Supreme Court decision, “This arm-wrestling match between the federal government and the states is ultimately counterproductive for ICE. In creating Secure Communities, Washington opened the door to state and local involvement in immigration enforcement. It is now in the awkward position of doing battle with states when they overstep that role (Arizona) or when they are perceived to pull back too far (New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut).”

Friedman and Agarwal conclude, “The only way out of this conundrum is to get rid of S-Comm itself. The program has failed on its own terms, making communities less secure rather than more, and it has set off a tug-of-war between the states and the federal government that risks undermining federal control over immigration itself.”


Advocates in Arizona are signaling a shift in their fight asking the President to cut off Arizona’s access to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Cutting off access to ICE would mean that local law enforcement could not check the immigration status of arrestees in federal databases, which would prohibit compliance with the portion of SB 1070 that still stands and the Secure Communities program.

“In Arizona, we’re already living under SB1070, except that it’s called S-Comm. It’s called Arpaio. The Supreme Court ruling gave Arpaio one more tool to terrorize our community and gave us one more reason to fight back.” Carlos Garcia of Puente explained to Politic365. “Migrant families in Arizona will declare victory when Arpaio is brought to justice and when the President cuts off the state’s access to ICE altogether. Nothing short of that will relieve the crisis we face.”

This is the latest call to action from Puente Arizona, which highlights why activists are calling for the discontinuation of state access to ICE:

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