Thursday, April 14, 2011

ICE Secure Communities adds counties in MD, MI & SC

Maryland (Press Release via Yahoo)
On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using the Secure Communities program in Alleghany, Garrett and Washington counties to help federal immigration officials identify criminal aliens in state prisons and local jails by running their fingerprints against federal immigration databases when they are booked into the system.

Michigan (Press Release via Yahoo)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began using the Secure Communities program in seven Michigan counties including Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Muskegon and Ottawa...

South Carolina (The Times and Democrat)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has started using the Secure Communities program in Orangeburg and other counties to help identify criminal aliens in local jails by running their fingerprints against federal immigration databases.

The Maryland counties added are of local interest to us here in West Virginia. All three counties border West Virginia. Garrett county lies about 25 miles east of Morgantown.