"INSecure Communities"
Dept. of Homeland Security's "Secure Communities"
Secure Communities is a DHS program designed to identify immigrants in U.S. jails who are deportable under immigration law. Under Secure Communities, participating jails submit arrestees' fingerprints not only to criminal databases, but to immigration databases as well; allowing ICE access to information on individuals held in jails.
NEW AILA report : Immigration Enforcement Off Target: Minor Offenses with Major Consequences. The report presents 127 case examples of people picked up by local law enforcement for minor offenses or no offense at all who were turned over to federal immigration authorities for deportation. The report is drawn from cases reported by AILA attorneys and covers incidents in 24 states and the District of Columbia.
Here's the link to the report and other resources: http://www.aila.org/content/default.aspx?docid=36646.
The NYTimes did a story on it Aug. 17, 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/us/politics/17immig.html?ref=juliapreston.
The report challenges the claim made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that it focuses its finite resources on the "highest enforcement priorities" -namely those who present threats to public safety and national security. The report's anecdotal accounts are consistent with DHS’s own statistical data showing that DHS is deporting tens of thousands of people who have been picked up for minor infractions, like driving without a license or loitering, and who pose no threat to Americans and our communities.