From our community it seems that the people taken by ICE Secure Communities are identified by traffic violations. I know of no-one who has committed a felony. If the state had a drivers certificate program for undocumented people then there would be no-one for ICE to take. Such a program would save the federal government the cost of detaining residents in county jails and immigration detention centers. Local counties would save the cost of keeping people until ICE picked them up and would collect more traffic related fees. When immigration takes people away from jobs, then local court related fees are not paid and families are without income. In a community where non-citizens have lived at least 10 years, the line between legal and illegal residents is blurred and the whole community becomes insecure by the Secure Communities program.
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