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Program helps net illegal immigrants
Secure Communities ICE program
Updated: Thursday, 18 Mar 2010, 11:14 AM EDT
Published : Thursday, 18 Mar 2010, 11:14 AM EDT
FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Fairfax County is attributing a rise in the number of suspected illegal immigrants it turned over to federal officials to a criminal records sharing program.
From March 9, 2008, to March 9, 2009, the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office identified 836 suspected illegal immigrants it turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement . In the next year the county was able to turn 1,099 people to ICE, an increase of 31 percent.
Sheriff's office spokesman Sonny Cachuela attributed the increase to an ICE program called Secure Communities. It lets the county check the fingerprints of anyone processed at the jail against an immigration database to see if officials have noted they should be deported.
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