Secure Communities takes a political casualty

March 7, 2011 | 1:38 PM
By Rina Palta

City and police officials across the country are realizing that adding immigration enforcement to police duties not be as good an idea as it once seemed. Increasing local resistance to the federal Secure Communities program, which shares fingerprints of all arrestees with immigration control, has produced at least one political casualty. A little over a week after criticizing Providence’s Public Safety Commissioner for requesting clarification from the Justice Department on the “opt outâ€