By Ed Koch
Those who support amnesty for illegal aliens and want to provide them with "a path to citizenship" are engaged in a new effort to make those goals a reality before the next election. President Obama is leading the way. He deserves credit for keeping his word to support programs that would safeguard our borders, while making clear he intends to resume the battle to legalize the status of the estimated 11 to 20 million illegal aliens now in the U.S. He calls his program, as did his predecessor President Bush before him, comprehensive immigration reform.
According to The New York Times of May 10, one of the programs that President Bush started and President Obama continued "has been a cornerstone of the Obama administration's immigration enforcement efforts." It is known as the Secure Communities program. Under that program, described by The Times of May 10, "the fingerprints of everyone booked into a local or county jail are automatically sent to the Department of Homeland Security and compared with prints in the agency's databases. If officials discover that a suspect is in the country illegally, or is a non-citizen immigrant with a criminal record, they may seek to deport the person."
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