"US pushes state to join security plan; Immigration checks raise issues for police" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | October 6, 2010
Federal officials say they are compelling Massachusetts law enforcement agencies, including the State Police, to join a national program that checks the immigration status of everyone arrested and fingerprinted by 2013, officials said yesterday.
The planned rollout of the federal Secure Communities program has state officials, nonprofits, and local police chiefs scrambling to determine the program’s impact in Massachusetts and whether it conflicts with a policy barring the State Police from enforcing immigration law....
The immigration checks would mark a dramatic shift for Massachusetts....
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State joins US push on illegal immigrants
Massachusetts State Police will join a controversial federal program early next year to help the US government detect and deport illegal immigrants arrested for crimes.
Also see: Patrick to focus on change for immigrants
The first broken promise of his second term.
Also see: Patrick to focus on change for immigrants
The first broken promise of his second term.
Related:
Immigration enforcement turns to firms
Federal immigration officials are increasingly imposing thousands of dollars in fines on New England companies — from Fenway Park snack vendors to a Maine blueberry grower — for failing to prove that all their employees are in the United States legally.
And Boston is no longer a sanctuary city:
Police defend status checks
Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis, a strong critic of using police to enforce immigration laws, yesterday defended the city’s participation in a controversial federal program that automatically checks the immigration status of everyone arrested.
The goal of the controversial program, called Secure Communities, is to identify dangerous criminals and turn them over to US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for eventual deportation
Advocates warn that noncriminals are being swept up at the same time....
You know, like innocent Pakistanis caught up in a false-flag fraud by the FBI.
Related: Immigrant group targets police program
Also see: Hitching a Ride With Homeland Security
Sick of seeing the fooley fraud of an issue on the front page of the paper like me yet?
And Boston is no longer a sanctuary city:
Police defend status checks
Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis, a strong critic of using police to enforce immigration laws, yesterday defended the city’s participation in a controversial federal program that automatically checks the immigration status of everyone arrested.
The goal of the controversial program, called Secure Communities, is to identify dangerous criminals and turn them over to US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for eventual deportation
Advocates warn that noncriminals are being swept up at the same time....
You know, like innocent Pakistanis caught up in a false-flag fraud by the FBI.
Related: Immigrant group targets police program
Also see: Hitching a Ride With Homeland Security
Sick of seeing the fooley fraud of an issue on the front page of the paper like me yet?
