The National Day Laborer Organization Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic of the Cardozo School of Law announced today that they filed "an injunction in federal court to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to turn over documents that would explain how communities could opt out" of Secure Communities a fingerprint-sharing, immigration enforcement program.
Hannah Weinstein, of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic, said during the press conference, "We still don't know how communities can opt out of Secure Communities.
We [day laborers] have become symbols of the contentious and divisive debate on broken the immigration system and have been targeted by Minutemen and white supremacists.
We have seen racial profiling firsthand. It is surprising to us that the Obama Administration is giving local law enforcement tools to profile Latinos.
Secure Communities not only encourages racial profiling it also diverts funds and erodes trust between communities and local law enforcement and it works under the flawed assumption that deporting record numbers makes us safe.
In February, the three groups involved filed a FOIA request about how Secure Communities works. Released during the summer, those documents showed that 66 percent of Secure Communities deportations are of non-criminals.
This entry was posted in Press (Florida) on October 28, 2010 by Ian.