"The Center for Constitutional Rights, Detention Watch Network (DWN), Rights Working Group (RWG), National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the National Immigration Project reject Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) announcement today of minor changes to Secure Communities, a federal immigration enforcement program that has come under fire by communities nationwide that say it undermines public safety, invites racial profiling and fails in meetings ICE’s own objectives by funneling non-citizens into what groups say is a dangerous detention and deportation system." CCR, June 17, 2011.

http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press...ittle-too-late

Here's more; with the more alarming information in the last paragraph of the excerpt:

“We are stunned by the inadequacy of this announcement. Reform before review not only puts the cart before the horse, it continues to take the country in the wrong direction,” said Paromita Shah, Associate Director of the National Immigration Project. “ICE should listen to our elected leaders rather than ramming this federal program down the throats of localities that want nothing to do with it.”

“When federal auditors and inspectors are ignored, as they were with the 287(g) program, one has to wonder what good an ’advisory’ committee will do here,” said Retired Chief of the Sacramento Police Department and Current Project Director of the Law Enforcement Engagement Initiative Arturo Venegas. “Advice given is not required to be taken! You have three governors and umpteen chiefs of police and sheriffs telling you there are major problems with the program and that they want out. How much heavyweight advice do you need?”

Ongoing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the Immigration Justice Clinic of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law has uncovered a vast, sophisticated biometrics system that is largely unregulated, and some experts say the program infringes on the constitutionally-protected privacy rights of U.S. citizens.“ICE is simply putting lipstick on a pig. The civil rights and privacy issues triggered by the implementation of Secure Communities are just the tip of the iceberg,” said Sunita Patel, Center for Constitutional Rights staff attorney. “Our litigation has revealed the possibility of a much larger Big Brother scheme taking root – every community in the country may soon be fighting violations of our due process rights.”

This should worry everyone; I've been saying for months that they are planning a "registry" of the undocumented and I hope I'm wrong, but I think the Obama administation is planning in forcing a significant exodus of illegal immigrants after obtaining their biometric and geographical information. I also believe that the new ICE memos regarding prosecutorial discretion are the softening before the blow and that all the votes needed for E-Verify are already in place in both chambers of Congress. Read between the lines people, there's a lot of sublety in there.