Brown: Enforce immigration laws

Urges Feds to bypass Patrick on Secure Communities

Updated: Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011, 2:53 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 28 Sep 2011, 2:53 PM EDT
Kyle Cheney, State House News Service

BOSTON (State House News Service) - U.S. Sen. Scott Brown urged the country’s top homeland security official Wednesday to bypass a skeptical Gov. Deval Patrick and immediately implement Secure Communities – a federal program to identify and deport certain illegal immigrants – in Massachusetts, while a Republican sheriff suggested state government’s attitude toward illegal immigration is creating “fertile groundâ€