Checking up on how immigrants are handled by Oregon's county jails.
by Stefan Kamph
US IMMIGRATION and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has implemented the "Secure Communities" program in Multnomah, Marion, and Clackamas Counties, and hopes to roll it out nationwide by 2011. The system checks the immigration status of people booked in county jails by submitting their fingerprints to a national immigration database ["Criminal Aliens," News, June 24]. It replaces or supplements a hodgepodge of previous screening techniques. Through communication with sheriff's departments across the state beginning in March 2009, volunteers with the immigrant-focused group…
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