The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) along with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the Secure Communities Initiative nabbed more than 111,000 criminal illegal aliens since its inception one year ago.
The debut program is a partnership between ICE and local law enforcement agencies that uses biometrics to identify and remove criminal aliens.
Secure Communities operates jointly between DHS, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and participating law enforcement agencies to check the digital fingerprints of illegals arrested and booked into local level against DHS “biometrics-based immigration records in addition to FBI databases.” This process allows ICE to take appropriate action to ensure that dangerous criminal aliens are not released back into communities.
The new law enforcement tool classifies illegal immigrants into three categories; level one crime includes murder, rape and kidnapping; level two and three include burglary and property type of crimes.
The first year of Secure Communities netted approximately 11,000 undocumented aliens with level one crimes, DHS also claims 1,900 of those criminals have already been deported.
“Secure Communities is one of the programs that enhance our efforts to keep the peace in the largest urban area in Texas,” said Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia. “My department was the first local law enforcement agency in the country to adopt the program.”
Now, a year later, the Sheriff’s department continues to use the program as a ‘safety net’ to help identify inmates who, have been placed in custody for allegedly committing a crime under state law.
\What do you think about this program ?
Is it the best way to really eliminate the illegal aliens that
have commoted crimes ?
If the caught 111,000 how many did they not catch and deport ?
August 13, 2009
Secure Communities
Secure Communities: Mission
Secure Communities: A Comprehensive Plan to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens is a Department of Homeland Security initiative that improves public safety by implementing a comprehensive, integrated approach to identify and remove criminal aliens from the United States. The Secure Communities Program Management Office coordinates all ICE planning, operational, technical, and fiscal activities devoted to transforming, modernizing, and optimizing the criminal alien enforcement process. ICE plans to spend $1.4 billion of Congressional appropriations for criminal alien enforcement efforts in FY 2009.
Secure Communities: A Comprehensive plan to Identify and Remove Criminal Aliens is built on three pillars that address specific challenges
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