Thread: RI AG signs state up for immigration program

RI AG signs state up for immigration program

January 11, 2011
PROVIDENCE, R.I.

Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin signed the state up to participate in a federal program aimed at identifying illegal immigrants who break the law.

Today, Kilmartin signed the memorandum of agreement to enroll the state in the Secure Communities initiative. The Department of Homeland Security will also sign the agreement.

Secure Communities enables local police departments to automatically check the fingerprints of everyone they arrest against a federal immigration database to determine if the suspect is in the country illegally.

Secure Communities is separate from the executive order on illegal immigration rescinded last week by new Gov. Lincoln Chafee (CHAY'fee).

Part of that order by Chafee's predecessor required state police to help federal authorities with immigration enforcement.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_ ... sland+news

Finally Rhode island is doing something right!!!!!!!

Rhode Island AG signs ‘Secure Communities’ agreement
01:00 AM EST on Wednesday, January 12, 2011

By Karen Lee Ziner

Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — Less than a week after Governor Chafee rescinded his predecessor’s executive order cracking down on illegal immigration, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin signed an agreement to implement a federal Secure Communities initiative, aimed at identifying and deporting criminal illegal immigrants.

The Department of Homeland Security must sign the agreement before it goes into effect. Kilmartin’s spokeswoman, Amy Kempe, said the attorney general “is looking to have the program start very soon after the MOA [Memorandum of Agreement] is signed.â€