January 11, 2010

ICE Deploys Secure Communities to Two More California Counties

According to the latest news release dated January 5, 2010 from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE"), law enforcement agencies in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties in California began benefitting from an initiative developed by Department of Justice and Homeland Security that modernizes the process used to accurately identify and remove dangerous criminal aliens from the community. Secure Communities (as it is commonly known as) is administered by ICE to determine whether an individual arrested by a participating state or local law enforcement agency is a dangerous criminal alien and take appropriate action to remove the individual from the community. Secure Communities is being used by 108 jurisdictions in 15 states. By next year, ICE expects Secure Communities to have a presence in every state, with nationwide coverage anticipated by 2013.

For more details please read the news report.