Talk:Secure Communities

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Wikipedia is not a place to promulgate political views

This entire article is written as agenda-driven partisan political literature. Centrify (f / k / a FCAYS) (talk) (contribs) 15:31, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

Secure Communities is not one thing

I moved lots of content out of this article just now, hoping to be narrow specifically on the Secure Communities program. However, I am no longer convinced that there is a well-defined Secure Communities program. Originally, I think the term referred to localities providing ICE with fingerprints. However, when Secure Communities was ended in 2014, that continued. The second major component is detainers, which also continued in a lesser way when it "ended". Most of the discussion and commentators on Secure Communities seem to be speaking about ICE activity under the Obama administration generally. Perhaps "Secure Communities" referred to the administrative division of ICE that acts on the basis of hits in their database from fingerprints shared by local agencies. I'm starting to think that the ending of Secure Communities was a PR ploy (see news from that time, eg. "It’s not really clear at this stage if there’s any real, meaningful change that’s going to happen with regard to detainers"), as is the restarting of it under Trump, but that's original research.

My real problem is that we don't have a well-defined article topic. I'm starting to think we should restore much of what I removed and move it all to "Immigration policies of the Obama administration". However, I'm struggling with whether there should be any Secure Communities article at all. Also, moving would involve removing much of the commentary, since many of the commentators are discussing Secure Communities as such, not Obama's policies generally. What do others think? Sondra.kinsey (talk) 23:03, 18 May 2017 (UTC)

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