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Seems like immigration policy under the current administration is rooted in double-speak. How else to explain how a program named “Secure Communities” has proven to detain and deport not just the “bad” immigrants, but those without criminal backgrounds, making immigrant communities less safe. Now there are more reports showing just how “voluntary” the program which runs all “criminal” suspects’ fingerprints through an immigration database really is.

From the San Francisco Examiner:

A voluntary program to run all criminal suspects’ fingerprints through an immigration database was only voluntary until cities refused to participate, thousands of recently released documents show. The Obama administration then tightened the rules so that cities had no choice but to have the fingerprints checked.

The documents made public by the Homeland Security Department provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how the administration scrambled to quiet the criticisms and negative publicity surrounding the immigration enforcement program known as Secure Communities.

The administration rewrote the program’s participation rules, the documents show, considered withholding federal funding and FBI information from resisters and eventually dug up case law to justify requiring cooperation.

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