Immigrant Daily

San Diego is First CA County to Implement Secure Communities Program

Leading way for others, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department became the first law enforcement body in California to implement Secure Communities Program. Secure Communities administered by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), streamlines the process by which ICE determines whether an individual in the prison system is a removable criminal alien or not. The program mandates that every individual booked into the three largest jails in San Diego County must have their biometrics-fingerprints-checked in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) biometric system for immigration record. Secure Communities enhances the ongoing joint efforts by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department and ICE to identify criminal aliens in the San Diego County Jail system and process them for deportation. David Venturella, Executive Director for ICE Secure Communities claims that “Secure Communities is an initiative to more broadly manage and modernize the processes used to identify and ultimately remove dangerous criminal aliens from our communities.”

For detailed information, please read: San Diego Became the First County to Implement Secure Communities Program