A post-9/11 registration effort ends, but not its effects

The New York Times reports that NSEERS, a ‘special registration’ program created by the Department of Homeland Security in the months following the 9/11 attacks has been discontinued because it ‘no longer provides a unique security value.’ The program required thousands of Arab and Muslim men to register with authorities in order to uncover terror links and immigration violations.

Despite the end of ‘special registration,’ immigration experts claim that thousands of illegally present immigrants are still facing deportation because of information uncovered using the program. While only 11 of the more than 85,000 men registered in the first year of the program were found to have ties to terrorism, thousands were found to be illegally present immigrants.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/nyregion/antiterrorism-registry-ends-but-its-effects-remain.html

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89 Percent of Workers at Dairy Farm Illegal, Feds Say

KMGH News Denver reports that a routine inspection of a Colorado dairy farm revealed that 89 percent of its employees -- 53 workers -- were not authorized to work in the United States. Twenty employees at Wildcat Dairy were arrested on suspicion of using forged Social Security and Alien registration cards. Those who were arrested were being held on a no-bond immigration hold. If they are convicted, they face deportation.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/28096764/detail.html

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US Overrules Patrick on Immigration

The US government will force the state of Massachusetts to join the controversial Secure Communities program to detect and deport illegally present immigrants, despite Governor Deval Patrick’s refusal to endorse it. Launched in 2008, the Secure Communities program runs the names and fingerprints of everyone arrested through federal immigration and criminal databases to check the immigration status of criminal offenders, especially violent criminals. Boston is the only city in the Massachusetts jurisdiction in the program. Though Governor Patrick’s refusal to endorse the measure may delay implementation, one Homeland Security official asserted that the Governor can do little to impede the program’s statewide implementation by 2013.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-07/news/29630407_1_immigrant-advocates-illegal-immigrants-federal-immigration

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