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Deportation Program Grows -Texas Fully Adopts Much-Debated Federal Plan Aimed at All Counties by 2013

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Deportation Program Grows Texas Fully Adopts Much-Debated Federal Plan Aimed at All Counties by 2013 By ANA CAMPOY October 18, 2010, Wall Street Journal AUSTIN, Texas?A federal program that scans local jails for illegal immigrants is being expanded across the state, the latest front in the nation's battle over immigration policy. In the past two weeks, Texas became the first border state to fully deploy the Department of Homeland Security program, which is scheduled to be rolled out to all U.S. counties by 2013. The program automatically routes prisoners' fingerprints to the department, which tries to determine whether they are allowed to be in the U.S. Known as Secure Communities, the program is designed to intercept and remove illegal immigrants who have committed serious crimes such as homicide, rape and kidnapping, immigration officials say...continue to full post

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