CAIR Coalition is one of more than 100 organizations representing a wide variety of communities throughout the United States calling upon the Department of Homeland Security to reconsider its deportation and detention policies in line with the Justice Department's new "Smart on Crime" policy that addresses injustices in mandatory sentencing in the criminal justice system. Read the letter dated August 29, 2013 calling on new leadership in the Department of Homeland Security to adopt a more compassionate approach toward the detention and removal system.