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ICE Pushes Ahead With Secure Communities, but Local Advocates Gain Ground(1)

November 14, 2011

The last few months have demonstrated that despite widespread public opposition, ICE is determined to move forward with the controversial Secure Communities program. On August 5, 2011, ICE announced that Secure Communities, the program that allows state and local law enforcement and ICE to automatically and immediately search for both criminal and immigration history in [...]

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Population of Detained Immigrants in Virginia Increases Dramatically in the Wake of Secure Communities

The number of immigrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Virginia jails has nearly doubled in the last year.  In 2010, the average daily population of immigrant men and women detained in Virginia hovered between 600 and 700.  As of June 2011, the detainee population stands at over 1000. Currently, the facility with [...]

MPI Report Finds That Despite Reform Efforts 287(g) Program Fails to Prioritize Serious Criminals

Now operational in 72 jurisdictions around the country, including Frederick County, Maryland and Prince William County, Virginia, the 287(g) program gives local and state law enforcement authorities the right to question individuals about their immigration status and turn them over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if there is evidence that the individual has committed [...]

ICE Earns a “C” Average on Detention Reform Report Card

On October 6, 2009, John Morton, Assistant Secretary for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), announced that the Obama administration would be taking significant steps to reform the nation’s immigration detention system.  By the government’s own admission, the system used to detain and deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the last decade functioned with little [...]


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