{"id":1910,"date":"2011-06-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/the-other-immigration-reaction.html"},"modified":"2011-06-14T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:00:00","slug":"the-other-immigration-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/the-other-immigration-reaction.html","title":{"rendered":"The other immigration reaction"},"content":{"rendered":"Probably everybody has heard that\n\nAlabama followed Georgia down the Arizona lock-’em-up anti-immigration path.<\/a>\n

\nAccording to\n\nAlbor Ruiz in the New York Daily News, 12 June 2011,<\/a>\n

\nWashington’s inaction on the immigration crisis is no longer sprouting\nonly hostile and inhumane local laws. But there is growing evidence an\nincreasing number of local and state officials have tired of playing an\nabusive and costly anti-immigration game they don’t believe in.\n

\nTwo weeks ago, Gov. Cuomo pulled New York State from the Secure\nCommunities federal deportation program, following Illinois Gov. Pat\nQuinn who had done the same weeks before. And days after Cuomo’s decision\nMassachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick took the same courageous step. All\nthree governors are Democrats and strong allies of President Obama.\n

\nThey had plenty of reasons to quit the controversial Department of\nHomeland Security program. Promoted as a tool to deport undocumented\nimmigrants convicted of serious crimes, in reality Secure Communities\ntargets mostly low-level offenders or those never convicted of any crime\nat all.\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd who benefits by arresting such people?\nPrivate prison companies, which hold the new prisoners.\n

\nIt’s not just northeast state, either.\nHere’s a city and state on the frontline of immigration, Los Angeles, California:\n\n\n

\n\n<\/a>\nLast week, the Los Angeles City Council called for the city to opt\nout of Secure Communities, and on Friday California Congress members\nXavier Becerra, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Judy Chu and Bernard Parks\nasked Gov. Jerry Brown to suspend California’s participation in the\nprogram. Their main concern is the program’s effect on the reporting\nof crime by victims and witnesses in immigrant communities. The four\nlegislators are also Democrats and Obama supporters.\n<\/blockquote>\nGeorgia doesn’t have to keep falling for ALEC’s scaremongering\nfor the benefit of private prison companies.\n

\nWe don’t need a private prison in Lowndes County, Georgia.\nSpend those tax dollars on education instead.\n

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