Jun 8, 2011
Add Massachusetts to the groundswell of states and localities opposing President Obama's misconceived and failing immigration dragnet. Gov. Deval Patrick announced on Monday that his state would not participate in Secure Communities, the fingerprint-sharing program that the Obama administration wants to impose nationwide by 2013.
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In opposing the federal program to use state police to check the immigration status of people who are arrested, and then supporting it, and then opposing it again, Governor Patrick has seemed anguished and indecisive. In an odd way, it's an appropriate stance.
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As criticism mounts over a controversial federal program aimed at deporting criminal illegal residents, Gov. John Hickenlooper is now hedging on Colorado's commitment to Secure Communities. "We're gathering data. We're going to do a full evaluation of whether it's working," Hickenlooper said Monday.
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Yesterday, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick removed his state from the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Communities program. Today, The New York Times used that news as the basis for another very strong editorial urging a new direction for "President Obama's misconceived and failing immigration dragnet."
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Yesterday, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) announced that his state will not participate in the federal government's failed "Secure Communities" deportation program.
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Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has decided the state will not participate in a fingerprint-sharing program that is central to the Obama administration's immigration enforcement strategy, dealing a new political blow to a program that has met rising resistance nationwide.
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Last week, New York joined Illinois by announcing it has pulled out of the immigration enforcement program known as Secure Communities. In California, the state legislature is considering whether to let counties to do the same.
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New York and Illinois have both withdrawn from the "Secure Communities" Program based on the assessment that it is poorly conceived and misdirected, it has damaged relations with immigrant communities and it has not achieved the goals for which it is was designed.
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The city of Los Angeles will consider throwing its support behind efforts to let local governments opt out of a controversial federal program in which fingerprints of arrestees are shared with immigration agents.
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Jun 5, 2011
Gov. Andrew Cuomo properly put a hold on New York's participation in Secure Communities, a federal program that partners local police and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement resources to crack down on illegal immigration.
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