Latinos Said to Bear Weight of Deportation Program

A new report (done by UCLA Berkeley's Law School and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York) analyzing Obama's Secure Communities initiative has found that Latinos are disproportionately bearing the weight of this deportation program.  Although the program claims that deportation of criminal convicts is its priority, many immigrants who were not dangerous offenders have been deported.  In fact, American citizens from Latin America have even been held by immigration officials.

“'If Secure Communities was working properly,' the report said, a match under the program 'should never result in the apprehension' of a citizen."

"The report found that 93 percent of immigrants arrested under Secure Communities were Latinos, although Latino immigrants are about three-quarters of the illegal immigrants in the United States. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/us/latinos-said-to-bear-weight-of-deportation-program.html?_r=1&ref=world