The city of San Francisco decided to finally end the Secure Communities Partnership between the Immigration authorities and local law in early October this year. Now, illegal immigrants would not need to fear getting deported over small crimes or violations.
In 2008, the federal government launched the Secure Communities Partnership between local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to facilitate deportation of illegal immigrants who were arrested for crimes. The program is managed by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE.
The main objective behind the partnership was to focus the country's resources to identify the most serious of criminal offenders and remove them. The goals were listed down in a report to the Congress in 2009:
1. To identify criminal aliens through modernized information sharing
2. To prioritize enforcement actions to ensure apprehension and removal of dangerous criminal aliens
3. To transform criminal alien enforcement processes and systems to achieve lasting results.
Immigrant advocates have criticized this controversial program since non-violent illegal immigrants too are getting caught up in the system and getting separated from their families. The secure communities program was administratively created and implemented without a mandate from the Congress. That's why there have been no regulations laid down to govern the implementation of the program.
By mid 2011, it drew resentment from state and local law enforcement since it was affecting the local social fabric. It also drew criticism since some law enforcement officials believed it was interfering with the law enforcement operations. The program had been reduced to just a deportation facilitation tool instead of sticking to its original goals. Immigrant advocates and organizations began to widely criticize the program.
Many critics accused the immigration authorities and local law enforcement authorities of racial profiling and wrongful detention.
During the second term presidential election campaign, the Obama administration relaxed some aspects of the program's enforcement policies since it was attracting a major negative impact. In August 2011, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new deportation policy which aimed at deporting only those individuals who were deemed to be a threat to public safety. However, the effectiveness of this program too has come under dispute.
Once the DACA program was implemented by the Obama administration which granted temporary relief of two years to immigrants brought into the US as children and earned their high school diploma here, a major faction of illegal immigrants was protected from secure communities program.
In 2008, the federal government launched the Secure Communities Partnership between local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to facilitate deportation of illegal immigrants who were arrested for crimes. The program is managed by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE.
The main objective behind the partnership was to focus the country's resources to identify the most serious of criminal offenders and remove them. The goals were listed down in a report to the Congress in 2009:
1. To identify criminal aliens through modernized information sharing
2. To prioritize enforcement actions to ensure apprehension and removal of dangerous criminal aliens
3. To transform criminal alien enforcement processes and systems to achieve lasting results.
Immigrant advocates have criticized this controversial program since non-violent illegal immigrants too are getting caught up in the system and getting separated from their families. The secure communities program was administratively created and implemented without a mandate from the Congress. That's why there have been no regulations laid down to govern the implementation of the program.
By mid 2011, it drew resentment from state and local law enforcement since it was affecting the local social fabric. It also drew criticism since some law enforcement officials believed it was interfering with the law enforcement operations. The program had been reduced to just a deportation facilitation tool instead of sticking to its original goals. Immigrant advocates and organizations began to widely criticize the program.
Many critics accused the immigration authorities and local law enforcement authorities of racial profiling and wrongful detention.
During the second term presidential election campaign, the Obama administration relaxed some aspects of the program's enforcement policies since it was attracting a major negative impact. In August 2011, the Department of Homeland Security announced a new deportation policy which aimed at deporting only those individuals who were deemed to be a threat to public safety. However, the effectiveness of this program too has come under dispute.
Once the DACA program was implemented by the Obama administration which granted temporary relief of two years to immigrants brought into the US as children and earned their high school diploma here, a major faction of illegal immigrants was protected from secure communities program.
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