ICE announced late Friday (that's Public Relations 101 on how you bury news stories you hope won't get so much public attention) that it not only won't release states and municipalities from their Memoranda of Agreement implementing the controversial Secureity Communities but that they are terminating all the MOAs and will force the program on states and cities whether they like it or not. They're now planning on forcing the program on all locations around the country by 2013. So much for all those promises early on in this Administration that the program was voluntary.
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A paranoid or a cynic might say this is some sort of plot to "heighten the contradictions" within our society, but I think a combination of bureaucratic inertia, political cowardice, political complacency and sheer incomprehension of a Byzantine system have more to do with our present ludicrous immigration situation. only the lousy economy prevents the numbers of illegals and frustrated would-be or in-process legal immigrants from being even higher.
What a mess.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-08-08-civil-rights-lawsuit-immigration-police_n.htm?csp=34news
I know. It's going to always be a mess so long as all these zero enforcement groups keep attempting to thwart the law by killing its enforcement:
He said his group [National Day Laborer Organizing Network] is considering a lawsuit to try to block the program.
(from gg's link)