By
Joanne Lin, Washington Legislative Office at 5:39pm
The ACLU wholeheartedly agrees with the White House’s August 16 Secure Communities blog post that, "in the debate over immigration and deportations, the facts matter." Under Secure Communities, local jails run all arrestees’ fingerprints through not only criminal databases, but also immigration databases, in an effort to deport convicted drug traffickers, gang members, and other violent criminals. The problem is too many innocent people, or those who are not "the worst of the worst" as the White House says, are being deported. If you look at the entire universe of facts concerning immigration enforcement, not the limited set of facts the administration highlights, you'll see why.
