"When state and local law enforcement arrest and book someone into a jail for a violation of a state criminal offense, they generally fingerprint the person. After fingerprints are taken at the jail, the state and local authorities electronically submit the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This data is then stored in the FBI's criminal databases. After running the fingerprints against those databases, the FBI sends the state and local authorities a record of the person's criminal history."
"With the Secure Communities program, once the FBI checks the fingerprints, the FBI automatically sends them to DHS, so that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) can determine if that person is also subject to removal (deportation). This change, whereby the fingerprints are sent to DHS in addition to the FBI, fulfills a 2002 Congressional mandate for the FBI to share information with ICE, and is consistent with a 2008 federal law that instructs ICE to identify criminal aliens for removal."
NYPD intelligence mapped ethnic neighborhoods and collected data on Moroccan and Moroccan-American communities. Secure Communities shares fingerprint information from state and local arrests by transmitting jail fingerprint submissions to the FBI and then to DHS. The FBI stores fingerprints, checks them against criminal databases, and records criminal histories for state and local authorities. Under Secure Communities, the FBI automatically forwards fingerprint checks to DHS so ICE can determine removability, fulfilling a 2002 Congressional mandate and aligning with a 2008 law requiring ICE to identify criminal aliens for removal. Secure Communities requires no changes to local booking procedures and has led to deportations of low-level undocumented individuals rather than hardened felons, weakening local law enforcement effectiveness.
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