LEGAL 391U Lecture Notes - United Arab Emirates Dirham, Fingerprint Records, Removal Proceedings
19 May 2014
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City council just says no to federal deportation program. Aclu attorney bill newman addressing the northampton city council on thursday. (david reid photos) City councilors adopt a resolution refusing to cooperate with the secure communities initiative of the dept. of homeland security. Northampton the city of northampton on thursday formally opted out of a federal deportation program that sends fingerprint scans of people who get arrested by state and local police to a database run by u. s. immigration officials. Created in 2003, ice is the investigative and enforcement arm of the dhs. The program relies upon the use of biometric fingerprint scanners by police. According to the dhs, locally collected fingerprints are sent to the federal bureau of investigation and compared with a criminal- history database. Matches are sent to a unit at dhs called us-visit (united states visitor and immigrant status indicator.
