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Secure Communities in Place Along Border Counties

Ken Dilanian of the L.A. Times reports on how the new ICE program Secure Communities, which allows information (and fingerprint) sharing between federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities, is now in place in aall 25 coiunties along the U.S./Mexico border.  The program is controversial; critics fear that it will chill immigrants, who may fear deportation, form cooperating with state and local police in law enforcement.

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