New immigration measure in 2 Ga. counties
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ATLANTA (AP) — Federal immigration authorities have started sharing biometric information with authorities in two additional Georgia counties to help identify criminal immigrants.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the Homeland Security Department, began sharing the information with Hall and Whitfield counties Wednesday.

ICE says it is part of an initiative, called Secure Communities, which is already in effect in Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett and Muscogee counties.

The program allows arrestee fingerprint information to be checked against FBI criminal history records and biometrics-based immigration records kept by the Department of Homeland Security.

Previously fingerprints were just checked against the Department of Justice biometric system kept by the FBI.
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October 15, 2010
Secure Communities is comming to every community in the nation. The bad thing about this is it only gives information on wanted illegal alien felons. This is a shame when we need to be working hard to deport all who are here illegaly.

In these hard times we can't afford to give a free ride to all the 12-20 million who come here with their hand out.

Phil Jackson

Cedartown,Ga
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