Thread: Secure Communities program is a cause for concern

Stefania Sani: Secure Communities program is a cause for concern

Stefania Sani madison.com | Posted: Sunday, January 23, 2011 5:55 am

Dear Editor: Greatly disappointing and worrisome was the recent news that, starting now, Wisconsin is participating in the Secure Communities program.

This Department of Homeland Security program is being aptly explained in many media. The program raises many concerns:

Community policing: The use of local police forces to be tasked with regulation of immigration status takes time and energy away from investigating and preventing real criminality.

Detentions: There are concerns about limitation of individual rights.

Profiling: There is concern about potential abuse of the system in the way it triages detainees.

Transparency/recourse: There is concern about the lack of statutory mechanisms needed for oversight and for protection of legal rights.

Many communities across the country (San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York) have questioned the program and its consequences and are trying to opt out. Here in Wisconsin, we should also pay attention. The decision to join the program was made stealthily and with no discussion. We need to understand the full impact of making our communities “Secure Communitiesâ€

Keep barking at the moon Stef.

If you're in Wisconsin, please write letters in support of Secure Communities to all newspaper editors in Wisconsin showing STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE INITIATIVE WHICH KEEPS ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS OFF THE STREETS IN MANY COMMUNITITES THROUGHOUT THE U.S.!!!!!

Community policing: The use of local police forces to be tasked with regulation of immigration status . . .

Some people don't like this but I love the idea that when every city, county and state law enforcement officer arrest anyone, anywhere, for anything, at any time they are automatically run in the I.C.E. fingerprint database when they are booked into the county jail..

No,Illegal aliens that cause our communities to be UNSECURE Is a concern Please go crawl back Into the cave that you have been living In,light a candle In memory of all of the American Citizens that have LOST THEIR LIVES to an Illegal alien,and remember what country that you are In. This Is the United States of America,and we take care of our own first Get a life "Steph" preferably In another country,since you obviously favor other cutures over our own

Sitting here enjoying a peaceful Sunday and all of a sudden
"baweep..baweep..baweep" from psyco...
Stefania Sani Say's even “Secure Communitiesâ€

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

Community policing: The use of local police forces to be tasked with regulation of immigration status . . .

Some people don't like this but I love the idea that when every city, county and state law enforcement officer arrest anyone, anywhere, for anything, at any time they are automatically run in the I.C.E. fingerprint database when they are booked into the county jail..

Exactly! The reasons they check at the jail is to prevent claims of police profiling and for illegals not to be afraid to call police when they are victims of crime.