Thread: Tennessee is now 100% I.C.E. Secure Communities

With 74 new communities activated Tennessee is now 100% I.C.E. Secure Communities

2101 communities, 66% of all U.S. communities, are now activated.

June 17, 2010
Knox

June 22, 2010
Hamilton
Shelby

August 10, 2010
Davidson

December 28, 2010
Anderson
Bedford
Blount
Bradley
Carter
Coffee
Greene
Hamblen
Jefferson
Madison
McMinn
Obion
Roane
Sevier
Sullivan
Warren
Washington

January 10, 2012
Benton
Bledsoe
Campbell
Cannon
Carroll
Cheatham
Chester
Claiborne
Clay
Cocke
Crockett
Cumberland
Decatur
DeKalb
Dickson
Dyer
Fayette
Fentress
Franklin
Gibson
Giles
Grainger
Grundy
Hancock
Hardeman
Hardin
Hawkins
Haywood
Henderson
Henry
Hickman
Houston
Humphreys
Jackson
Johnson
Lake
Lauderdale
Lawrence
Lewis
Lincoln
Loudon
Macon
Marion
Marshall
Maury
McNairy
Meigs
Monroe
Montgomery
Moore
Morgan
Overton
Perry
Pickett
Polk
Putnam
Rhea
Robertson
Rutherford
Scott
Sequatchie
Smith
Stewart
Sumner
Tipton
Trousdale
Unicoi
Union
Van Buren
Wayne
Weakley
White
Williamson
Wilson

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

CHECK YOUR COUNTY:
ICE Secure Communities:
2,101 of 3,181 66% Jurisdictions have now been activated
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Welcome to the 100% club Tennessee

1/10/2012

AL - 37 of 67
AK - 0 of 27
AZ - 15 of 15 - 100%
AR - 19 of 75
CA - 58 of 58 - 100%
CO - 3 of 64
CT - 1 of 8
DE - 3 of 3 - 100%
DC - 0 of 1
FL - 67 of 67 - 100%
GA - 159 of 159 - 100%
HI - 4 of 4 - 100%
ID - 44 of 44 - 100%
IL - 26 of 102
IN - 92 of 92 - 100%
IA - 13 of 99
KS - 105 of 105
KY - 1 of 120
LA - 15 of 64
ME - 0 of 16
MD - 22 of 24
MA - 1 of 15
MI - 83 of 83 - 100%
MN - 0 of 87
MS - 82 of 82 - 100%
MO - 115 of 115 - 100%
MT - 3 of 56
NE - 12 of 93
NV - 14 of 17
NH - 0 of 10
NJ - 0 of 21
NM - 33 of 33 - 100%
NY - 31 of 62
NC - 100 of 100 - 100%
ND - 0 of 53
OH - 88 of 88 - 100%
OK - 77 of 77 - 100%
OR - 36 of 36 - 100%
PA - 3 of 67
RI - 5 of 5 - 100%
SC - 46 of 46 - 100%
SD - 5 of 66
TN - 95 of 95 - 100%
TX - 260 of 260 - 100%
UT - 29 of 29 - 100%
VT - 0 of 14
VA - 129 OF 129 - 100%
WA - 6 of 39
WV - 54 of 54 - 100%
WI - 72 of 72 - 100%
WY - 1 of 23

P.R. 37 of 37 - 100%

1/10/2012

2,101 jurisdictions activated out of 3,181 - 66%
(3,141 counties)

11/10/2012
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

This morning all of the communities listed as activated on Jan. 10, 2012 is missing from the I.C.E. site. Someone must have jumped the gun and put them up to soon. I'll follow up and see when they come back, or what ever happens.

You can't throw a rock i Tennessee without hitting an illegal alien. Maybe the posting scared them so they pulled it down?

January 16th , 2012 11:39 am

Tennessee POST rescind rules on immigration status checks

By The Associated Press

NASHVILLE (AP) — After being sued for creating rules in secret, a state commission has rescinded a policy that directed local jailers to check the immigration status of detainees.

The Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission was required to develop the policy by a recent state law, but a suit filed last month claimed they did so by email and in meetings that were not announced to the public.

State attorney Joe Underwood, speaking at the commission’s monthly meeting on Friday, recommended that members rescind the rules. They did so unanimously.

Underwood said that detainees will still have their immigration status checked as part of a federal program called Secure Communities that is now active in all 95 counties.

He told the commission that under Secure Communities, federal immigration authorities will receive electronic copies of the fingerprints of all detainees. It will then be up to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to decide whether to request an immigration hold on someone.

“Basically, this takes local law enforcement out of the process,” he said.

Underwood said that should remove the concern that some local jailers are engaging in racial profiling — questioning only those detainees that they perceive to be foreign because of the way they look or talk.

Attorney Elliott Ozment, who filed the suit against POST, said he was satisfied with the vote and would sign paperwork to drop the suit later on Friday.

This (decision) is important because we have run into problems with how these POST Commission regulations are being implemented in the counties,” he said.

Ozment has filed a separate suit in federal court claiming the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office has violated immigrants’ rights by detaining people without a request from ICE to do so.

Ozment said he expects cases like that to continue to come up under Secure Communities, but he will wait to hear from clients about their experiences before challenging the program.

Stephen Fotopulos, director of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, also attended Friday’s meeting. He said he would like to see the POST Commission take further action to educate jailers about when they are legally allowed to detain someone suspected of an immigration violation and for how long.

As for the POST Commission providing notice of its meetings, “I think it’s learned its lesson on that,” Ozment said.

Tennessee POST rescind rules on immigration status checks - Elizabethton Star