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Fingerprinting Plan Will Dramatically Increase Deportations 'Secure Communities' Would Ensnare People with Minor and More Serious Convictions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fingerprinting Plan Will Dramatically Increase Deportations 'Secure Communities' Would Ensnare Minor as well as Serious Offenders Washington Independent By Daphne Eviatar 5/22/09 The idea of deporting illegal immigrants who are also hardened criminals wouldn?t seem like a controversial idea. So when David Venturella, Executive Director of the Secure Communities Program at Immigration and Customs Enforcement testified to Congress in April, he proudly announced the expansion of his program as part of a ?comprehensive effort to increase national security and community safety by identifying, processing, and removing deportable criminal aliens.? But while there?s strong support for deporting dangerous criminals, federal programs such as this one are extending far beyond that goal and detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants for such minor infractions as running a stop sign or carrying an open container of alcohol...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).