Thread: "Innocent Until Proven Immigrant" WI. Joins I.C.E.

"Innocent Until Proven Immigrant" - Wisconsin Joins I.C.E. Secure Communities

by Antonio Ramirez · February 05, 2011

This month, Wisconsin became the latest state to join a federal program that will lead to skyrocketing deportations of hardworking people and a scary uptick in civil rights violations in the state.

The program, called "Secure Communities", works like this: When someone is arrested, state or local officials can run the fingerprints through an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database to determine the person's criminal or immigration history. If local officials receive a "hit", immigration officials are notified and investigate the case to determine whether that person should be deported.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement claims that the program's purpose is to find and deport those convicted of major drug, national security or violent crimes - a goal that most folks can agree on.

However, a friend who worked in the Milwaukee County jail told me she suspects that even before Secure Communities was implemented, rather than focusing on violent offenders, jail officials were contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deporting folks who had never even been convicted of a crime.

She's probably right. A recent Freedom of Information Act request found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was secretly implementing the program before formal agreements were signed in other states. Also, official reports reveal that a disturbing number of those arrested and deported are never convicted of a crime. According to an Immigration Policy Center report, around 30% of those deported through the program between Oct. 2009 - Sept. 2010 were non-criminals. Other Immigration and Customs Enforcement sources have placed the number at almost half of those arrested. Previous efforts to focus on high-level criminals have seen Immigration and Customs Enforcement arresting and likely deporting up to 83% of folks convicted of minor traffic violations or no crime at all, says IPC.

Wisconsin Police: Stop Abusing the Secure Communities Program

Which means that rather than catching high-level drug dealers, police in Wisconsin will probably be overwhelmingly arresting and deporting small business owners, dishwashers, students, landscapers, mothers and fathers whose worst crime is a broken headlight -- or who have committed no crime at all.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials also deny the program will lead to racial profiling, but a few years ago a friend's Mexican father was arrested and deported after a Milwaukee police officer who stopped to help him with a flat tire ended up reporting him to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He had committed no crime, so what led the officer to suspect he was undocumented?

Such cases and the implementation of Secure Communities have led to waves of fear in Milwaukee's immigrant community, say activists. Despite the program's name, all of Wisconsin's communities will be less safe if immigrants are too scared to report crimes to the police. Additionally, by giving the police what is essentially the ability to deport people at will, law enforcement will have a dangerous amount of power that will no doubt lead to serious abuse of immigrants by police.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement hopes to implement the plan in every US state by the end of the year. But instead of arresting and deporting high-level criminals, Secure Communities Wisconsin will miss the mark if it simply arrests and deports hardworking immigrants and community members.

Fortunately, a state statute specifies that Wisconsin counties should only fingerprint and check the immigration status of individuals arrested for more serious crimes. Tell Wisconsin Police to only punish individuals with serious crimes under Secure Communities.

http://news.change.org/stories/innocent ... ommunities

Since illegal aliens, their supporters, and the open border lobby hate The I.C.E. Secure Community Program you just know it's getting illegal aliens deported.\ by the thousands.

Also, official reports reveal that a disturbing number of those arrested and deported are never convicted of a crime

I thought that being in this country....and breaking the laws of this country was a crime

However, a friend who worked in the Milwaukee County jail told me she suspects that even before Secure Communities was implemented, rather than focusing on violent offenders, jail officials were contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and deporting folks who had never even been convicted of a crime.

Never been convicted of a crime, but performed an illegal act entering the U.S. undocumented. Therefore, ICE has a legal right to deport illegal aliens back to their homelands. The United States immigration laws are in place to protect this Country from unlawful invasions.

Yes, economic terrorism, theft of public funds, identity theft, fraud, evading arrest, purgury, and many other crimes are all worthless things that should be shrugged off.... IF they are an illegal alien. Our laws our meaningless and lets do away with them all... but ONLY if your an illegal. Of course they still apply to everyone else who's legal or a citizen because they are racist bigots right?

Get real, call it as we see it and we see people intent on destroying our country, destroying our laws, and spitting on our Constitution. In old days such would be considered acts of war and punishable by death. However today in a more civilized society we Americans are more then happy with simple deportation back home and securing our borders. We are already doing a hell of a lot more then they deserve by simply wanting deportations. But seriously think what the Founding Fathers would really say and do today if they were alive on this issue. I highly doubt we'd see Washington, Adams, or even Lincoln run up and hug an illegal alien telling them "ohh its ok!".

"Innocent Until Proven Immigrant" - Wisconsin Joins I.C.E. Secure Communities

ICE doesn't care about "immigrants." However, sometimes, they do care about illegal invaders. ALL illegal invaders are "guilty!"

Absolutely no compassion for the victims of illegal immigration, not just the violence against the American people, but the huge expense borne by taxpayers, the degradation of our schools, the strain on our social fabric. These are all things our government needs to worry about.

The Secure Communities Program should be focused on securing communities from illegal aliens. I'm not sure why they would want to focus on violent criminals when the task is to deport all illegal aliens whether they've been convicted of a violent crime or not.

I.C.E. has to focus on criminal aliens because congress and the white house tells them what to do.
People who don't do what they are told get fired.
Well, except the people in congress who don't do what the voters tell them to do.