Immigrant groups criticize fingerprint initiative

Yahoo News ^ | IVAN MORENO | AP

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DENVER – The federal government is rapidly expanding a program to identify illegal immigrants using fingerprints from arrests, drawing opposition from local authorities and advocates who argue the initiative amounts to an excessive dragnet.

The program has gotten less attention than Arizona's new immigration law, but it may end up having a bigger impact because of its potential to round up and deport so many immigrants nationwide.

[epithermal]

""It has the potential to revolutionize immigration enforcement," said Patel."

Let's hope she's right.

[wiggen]

I read this earlier. You left out the best part. Shes suing because it has the potential to revolutionize immigration enforcement.
Can you imagine? this will work too well,we can’t have it. What are the chances the govt. realizes ID is needed for voting too?

[AU72]

"Excessive Dragnet"! LOL!

I've never heard of a light dragnet.

[La Lydia]

Patel said that because illegal immigrants could be referred to ICE at the point of arrest, even before a conviction, the program can create an incentive for profiling (that is, identify illegals) and create a pipeline to deport more people.

What is not to like -- unless you don't believe in the rule of law?

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Maybe I haven’t been arrested enough but aren’t fingerprints taken when you are arrested (before you’re convicted) and those fingerprints stay in the system?

Are they upset that they will be held to the same standards as American citizens?

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“I’ve never heard of a light dragnet.”

I have a picture but would get banned.

[bravo whiskey]

now that the colorado republicvan party has blown up and tancredo is running third party we will have a pro-illegal, anti-colrado citizen governor who will take his denver sanctuary city and turn us into a sanctuary state. illegals are criminals. period. people who can’t understand the word illegal are too stupid to be allowed to vote.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s time for Americans to dropkick the ***holes in these “immigrant groups” back to the sewers they crawled out of when they came here.

[PapaBear3625]

A good next step would be to require fingerprinting as a condition for getting welfare. Besides identifying illegals, it would cut down on fraud (same people applying for welfare multiple times from multiple addresses)

[ebersole]

Saying Governor Hickenlooper makes me throw up in my mouth

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Immigrant groups are filled with idiots.....anything to catch these illegal SOBs is consistently rebuffed...wonder why..... =.=

[HiJinx]

Ping!