Apropos of my story today on municipalities that want to opt out of Secure Communities, the county manager for Arlington, Va., sent a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement yesterday requesting more information on how the community can remove itself from the fingerprint-sharing program, the Sun Gazette More…
Until last week, local officials in Arlington, Va., Santa Clara, Calif., San Francisco and Washington, D.C., thought they’d have no trouble opting out of the Secure Communities program, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement initiative that runs fingerprints collected by local police through federal immigration databases. After all, Secretary of Homeland More…
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed today that Secure Communities, a program that provides federal immigration officials with fingerprint data from local police, is mandatory for local jurisdictions. “We don’t consider Secure Communities an opt in/opt out program,” Napolitano said, according to an Immigration and Customs More…
The first two communities decided Tuesday to opt out of Secure Communities, a supposedly voluntary fingerprint-sharing program with federal immigration enforcement. But not so fast: Opting out of the program is not — and never was — an option, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told the Washington Post:
The first state communities are beginning to opt out of Secure Communities, a fingerprint-sharing program between local police and federal immigration enforcement officers. The program, which the Department of Homeland Security plans to extend nationwide by 2013, goes against some communities’ philosophies about policing immigration. Although the program has always More…
Today in Arlington, the Environmental Protection Agency is holding its first public hearing on its proposal to regulate coal ash, the byproduct of coal-fired power generation. Coal ash first became a part of the public discourse following a massive spill of the substance from a containment pond in Tennessee More…
Via Mary Kane, a lyrical-visual illustration of the way of life that Sara Raak is fighting to preserve. (Video after the jump.)
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