Posted on 04/30/2010 10:10:53 AM PDT by freespirited
Some D.C. Council members are planning to propose legislation that would prevent police from joining a federal program designed to catch illegal immigrants by matching fingerprints of arrestees against a database, officials said.
The District announced it was joining Secure Communities in November, but as the Washington Examiner reported earlier this month, the program has yet to get under way because police say they have run into technical difficulties.
Now, Councilmen Jim Graham and Phil Mendelson say they are sponsoring legislation that will prevent the program from ever being implemented. They plan to introduce it May 4.
Police Chief Cathy Lanier has said she favors using Secure Communities, which would check the fingerprints of every person who passes through the city's jail against an immigration database. But Lanier has said she does not want the program to be as sweeping as it is in other jurisdictions.
The District announced it was joining Secure Communities
Got a long long way to go, DC
Hey maybe the FEDS will join. Can you imagine having an illegal FBI agent. This has hit the fan big time.
Note to self...Never visit DC without my Magnum.
congress’ fault...
It’s the DC ghetto at work again.
Yaaa..but to be a youth soccer coach ya have to get fingerprinted!!!
Well then I don’t see the reason for any ‘white people’ or black people to give their fingerprints to the police to run thru ANY database.
Fight fire with fire.
Ping!
Fingerprint checks is how the BP catches scores of returning criminals at the border every week here in the Tucson sector...
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