Secure Communities Immigration Law
I was on The Daily Beast today and found this, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Is Latest to Reject “Secure Communities” Immigration Law. In a nutshell the article states that Mayor Emmanuel, and other Mayors including the Mayor of New York have decided to reject this law, because they feel it is discriminatory. The Secure Communities Law is meant to help find violent immigrants and have them deported, sounds good right? What it’s doing, according to the article, is for any offence, traffic offenses either, it is forcing police to fingerprint these people and send them in, and then if they have over-stayed their visa they are being deported. This law is deporting more non-violent offenders then violent ones. I kind of am wondering if that is the idea. Most people don’t get pulled over when they have just committed murder or raped somebody, they get pulled over for speeding. One isn’t going to be deported if they are legal, and committed a non-violet offence, only if you are illegal at the time of your offence. Am I missing something, because I don’t see the outrage in this? I know the law isn’t being used as it was intended but I don’t see where all the outrage is coming from.
Related articles
- U.S. Citizen Sues After Erroneously Being Held As An Undocumented Immigrant (thinkprogress.org)
- Washington state deported 562 through Secure Communities (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Fight Gangs by Enforcing Immigration (thedailybeast.com)
- Rahm Emanuel wants to make Chicago ‘the most immigrant-friendly city in the country’ (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- Obama’s former aide turns against him (english.ruvr.ru)
- Majority Backs Arizona on Immigration Crackdown Law (wolfslair88.wordpress.com)
- Mayor Emanuel: Undocumented Immigrant Crime Victims Have Nothing to Fear from Chicago Police (hispanicallyspeakingnews.com)
- Chicago Defies Obama Administration On Deportations (ibtimes.com)
- Obama Policy on Illegal Immigrants Is Challenged by Chicago (nytimes.com)
- Immigration Law’s Twisted Logic (thedailybeast.com)
