Thread: .Immigrant groups criticize fingerprint initiative

This is something required for every arrest, and that's been mandatory since it came into existance. Now illegals are trying to claim that it's being used to target them.
Who in the hell do they think they are?
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Associated Press Writer Ivan Moreno,
Associated Press Writer –
7 mins ago

DENVER – The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing opposition from local authorities and advocates who argue the initiative amounts to an excessive dragnet.

The program has gotten less attention than Arizona's new immigration law, but it may end up having a bigger impact because of its potential to round up and deport so many immigrants nationwide.

The San Francisco sheriff wanted nothing to do with the program, and the City Council in Washington, D.C., blocked use of the fingerprint plan in the nation's capital. Colorado is the latest to debate the program, called Secure Communities, and immigrant groups have begun to speak up, telling the governor in a letter last week that the initiative will make crime victims reluctant to cooperate with police "due to fear of being drawn into the immigration regime."

Under the program, the fingerprints of everyone who is booked into jail for any crime are run against FBI criminal history records and Department of Homeland Security immigration records to determine who is in the country illegally and whether they've been arrested previously. Most jurisdictions are not included in the program, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been expanding the initiative.

Since 2007, 467 jurisdictions in 26 states have joined. ICE has said it plans to have it in every jail in the country by 2013. Secure Communities is currently being phased into the places where the government sees as having the greatest need for it based on population estimates of illegal immigrants and crime statistics.

Since everyone arrested would be screened, the program could easily deport more people than Arizona's new law, said Sunita Patel, an attorney who filed a lawsuit in New York against the federal government on behalf of a group worried about the program. Patel said that because illegal immigrants could be referred to ICE at the point of arrest, even before a conviction, the program can create an incentive for profiling and create a pipeline to deport more people.

"It has the potential to revolutionize immigration enforcement," said Patel.

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What did I tell you. The federal government does some of their job and still these people yell "out of bounds". Nothing will please them until the border just disappears for them.

DEPORT ALL THESE IGNORANT CRIMINALS!

If Arizona gets to enforce their new law against illegals entering the U.S. Then I think others will follow with similar laws. In this day and age of not stepping on toes nobody wants to speak out against this illegal activity. Many in local political roles are friends and family of many illegal immigrants. Hard to get them to speak out against it. I think the fingerprint idea is great but it should not be just if they get arrested. How about anytime the go to get Federal aid of any kind. No handouts for non-citizens. How much will that save on the federal budget. We are bearing the burden in so many ways no financial expert can even come remotely close to what the U.S spends on illegal aliens in this country.

I'm tired of all these do good programs and amnesty garb. I say if your here illegally get a fingerprint and photo profile after serving 6 months in jail on to be released at the border. Second offense 2 years and third should be ten. Then and only then will there be any rest at the borders. Initially it there would be over crowding. As the facilities become full then the construction of new will begin using the inmates who broke this crime to build new facilities in which they will reside. Start taking away years of their life and all the sudden the U.S. is not the "home of free" health care, food, and housing unless prison is your definition.

Every time somebody is pulled over they should have to give a fingerprint to run against any outstanding crime for illegal entering the country or any crime by any race of people. How many times do you hear of known felons getting pulled over to get a ticket and drive off. A driver's license is not good enough for I.D. use the technology we already have. This way the officer can upload the fingerprint to be run against the database for outstanding warrants. The money saved by denying aid to illegals and deportation this would be more than enough to implement these technologies. It pays for itself a thousand times over.