A report by scholars at Cardozo and Berkeley paints a damning portrait of Secure Communities. Aarti Kohli, Peter L. Markowitz, and Lisa Chavez, Secure Communities by the Numbers: An Analysis of Demographics and Due Process (October 2011). Secure Communities, the Obama Administration’s signature immigration policing program, takes fingerprint data submitted by local law enforcement agencies to the FBI and runs them through the Department of Homeland Security’s IDENT database to try to identify people who are either undocumented or at risk of losing their right to remain in the United States if [...]
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February 23, 2015 On February 23, 2015, the United States filed its notice of appeal and request for a stay of the district court's order in State of Texas v. United States, the lawsuit that the states brought against its planned use of immigration executive action. Those documents are available below: Fifth Circuit decision denying federal government's request to stay preliminary injunction (May 26, 2015) Oral argument before Fifth Circuit (April 17, 2015) District court's denial of federal government's motion to stay (April 7, 2015) Letter from Fifth Circuit's clerk notifying [...]