Jail Steps Up Screening For Illegal Immigrants

Homeland Security Database Is Added
By Jennifer BuskeWashington Post Staff WriterThursday, October 8, 2009

Prince William regional jail officials have joined a federal system to tighten their screening of inmates' immigration status and potentially deport those in the United States illegally.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Secure Communities initiative provides jurisdictions across the nation access to more comprehensive federal records, ICE officials said.
"Secure Communities is a Department of Homeland Security initiative to more broadly manage and modernize the processes used to identify and ultimately remove dangerous criminal aliens from our communities," said Marc Rapp, acting executive director of Secure Communities. "Our goal with this effort is to use information sharing to prevent criminal aliens from being released back into the community, with little or no additional burden on our local law enforcement partners."

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