New Deportation Program Raises Constitutional Flags

ATLANTA, GA (PR) - When the President announced executive action on immigration in November of last year, a memo from DHS Secretary Johnson announced the end to the Secure Communities program because, according to the memo, “the program has attracted a great deal of criticism, is widely misunderstood, and is embroiled in litigation; its very name has become a symbol for general hostility toward the enforcement of our immigration laws.”

Commissioners to Sheriff: Not One More

ATLANTA, GA (PR) - On Wednesday, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution calling on the County Sheriff to end the county’s voluntary compliance to federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requests to keep people in jail for extra time, otherwise known as ICE detainers, an important element of the failed deportation dragnet, Secure Communities Act (S-Comm).

Cobb Commissioners Ignore Dollars & Sense

MARIETTA, GA (By Rich Pellegrino) — Dear Cobb County Commissioners: In learning of your proposed signing of the IMAGE agreement with the federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), which supposedly will help the County prevent any undocumented residents from applying for a County job, one can only recall the popular folk song of the 60’s “When will they ever learn?????”