Government alters deportation program.

latimes.com ^ | June 18, 2011 | By Brian Bennett and Lee Romney

[justlittleoleme]

Facing a barrage of criticism from some Democratic governors, members of Congress and local officials, the Obama administration is altering a controversial federal program in which law enforcement agencies share fingerprints of suspects held in local jails with U.S. immigration authorities.

The Secure Communities program, which was intended to identify and deport convicted felons, wound up also ensnaring minor offenders, victims of domestic abuse and other crimes, as well as witnesses to crimes and people who were arrested but not convicted of offenses.

In response, U.S. Homeland Security officials announced Friday that the department had issued new guidelines in an effort to stop immigration officers from deporting people who were arrested while reporting a crime, or who were witnesses in a potential criminal investigation or trial. The guidelines also give prosecutors more discretion on whom to deport.

[justlittleoleme]

Isn't simply being illegal a crime? Hence the term "ILLEGAL"

[thethirddegree]

We need to deport every last one of these illegal scum and their anchor babies, seal/secure the border with armed troops, a fence and a wall, and have a lethal response to anyone trying to re-enter illegally.

[WOBBLY BOB]

We can’t even manage to deport felon illegals,let alone other miscreant crimaliens.

Aren’t 30% or more of CA. prisoners crimaliens?

[headstamp 2]

“In response, U.S. Homeland Security officials announced Friday that the department had issued new guidelines in an effort to stop immigration officers from deporting people who were arrested while reporting a crime, or who were witnesses in a potential criminal investigation or trial.”

Let them testify, then deport them.

[Vigilanteman]

How is it that an illegal alien has the right to postpone their deportation indefinitely by by simply claiming a civil rights violation in a country where they have no right to be in the first place, but an American citizen suffering under the ObaMao administration has no right to see documents establishing his constitutional eligibility to be CIC?

Such suits are dismissed without comment because the U.S. citizen plaintiff has no standing.

So how does someone not even legally present in the U.S. have standing?

[Vaduz]

Democratic governors, members of Congress and local officials.
Felons helping felons for the last thirty years.

[Buckeye McFrog]

call it the “Accuse a Cop of Police Brutality and Get Out of Jail Free And Get a Green Card Program”