Thread: NY's Get-Out-Of-Jail Free Card: ICE at Riker's

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[quote]I have some incredibly disturbing news to report to you today that entails gutting an effective program involving the collaboration of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the New York Department of Corrections. As many of you might know, one of the best means of apprehending and deporting criminal aliens is consistent cooperation between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement agencies.

The programs that exist to effectuate this end, Secure Communities and the much more robust 287(g), have been the single best tool in our arsenal capable of frustrating the intentions of criminal aliens who repeatedly flout our country’s criminal statutes and exploit the generally lax enforcement of immigration law. They have prevented repeat offenders from foreign countries from further victimizing innocent American citizens, and have served as a deterrent to illegal aliens who might be planning on perpetrating crimes in the future.

The fact that New York State’s Department of Corrections has buckled in the face of threats by immigration lawyers and “civil rights advocates,â€

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27 New York Counties now I.C.E. Secure Communities UPDATED

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New York’s Get Out Of Jail Free Card

May 22, 2011
By G. Perry

I have some incredibly disturbing news to report to you today that entails gutting an effective program involving the collaboration of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency and the New York Department of Corrections. As many of you might know, one of the best means of apprehending and deporting criminal aliens is consistent cooperation between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement agencies.

The programs that exist to effectuate this end, Secure Communities and the much more robust 287(g), have been the single best tool in our arsenal capable of frustrating the intentions of criminal aliens who repeatedly flout our country’s criminal statutes and exploit the generally lax enforcement of immigration law. They have prevented repeat offenders from foreign countries from further victimizing innocent American citizens, and have served as a deterrent to illegal aliens who might be planning on perpetrating crimes in the future.

The fact that New York State’s Department of Corrections has buckled in the face of threats by immigration lawyers and “civil rights advocates,â€

Hell our city has secure communities and I think the Police have stopped even pulling them over!

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

Hell our city has secure communities and I think the Police have stopped even pulling them over!

Add this to the do-nothing files. I'm still waiting to see what the DOJ does about Pat Quinn thumbing his nose at ICE.

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

Hell our city has secure communities and I think the Police have stopped even pulling them over!

Secure Communities is not all it's hyped up to me (IMO). I like the original 287(g) program much better. Secure Communities only came into being because the illegal alien advocates (ACLU, La Raza, SPLC, etc.) kept complaining about 287(g). Of course you'll never satisfy the illegal alien advocates, no matter how much you water down 287(g). They won't be satisfied until no illegals are being deported and amnesty comes about.

As early as this week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo could decide whether New York should withdraw from Secure Communities, a program that has local law enforcement agencies share digital fingerprints of those arrested with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. . .

Secure Communities Program: Should New York Stay or Go?
May 23, 2011

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-238808.html

Originally Posted by Mickey

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

Hell our city has secure communities and I think the Police have stopped even pulling them over!

Secure Communities is not all it's hyped up to me (IMO). I like the original 287(g) program much better. Secure Communities only came into being because the illegal alien advocates (ACLU, La Raza, SPLC, etc.) kept complaining about 287(g). Of course you'll never satisfy the illegal alien advocates, no matter how much you water down 287(g). They won't be satisfied until no illegals are being deported and amnesty comes about.

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Good point. 287(g) is a much better, more effective program-as I noted on my website. The problem is, these people do not want any immigration enforcement of any kind, which makes the ostensible reasons they cite for opposing a specific program all the more flimsy.

Regardless, though, of what Cuomo would like to do -- and he has not spoken out on this -- a question remains of what he can do. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn recently tried to opt out of the program and was told by the Department of Homeland Security that terminating the contract was impossible -- that the information would still be collected.

Secure Communities Program: Should New York Stay or Go?
May 23, 2011
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-238808.html

Waiting to see what Cuomo will do. I'm not hopeful, to be perfectly honest.