No to inSecure Communities

NO MORE DEPORTATIONS. POLICE SHOULD NOT BE IMMIGRATION AGENTS.

Governor Paterson, Stop ICE’s “Secure Communities” in New York Now!

RALLY in Manhattan. Thursday December 9, 2010, 11 am. Gov. Paterson’s NYC Office, 633 3rd Ave (btwn 40th and 41st St.)

For more information: Lili Salmeron, NMCIR, 212-781-0355 or co@nmcir.org

In May 2010, NY State signed a Memorandum of Agreement with ICE approving "Secure Communities," in which local police send fingerprints of all arrestees to Department of Homeland Security databases. This costly program will push thousands more immigrants into the unjust detention and deportation system, while making us all less safe and violating our rights. ICE has repeatedly misrepresented and lied about the program to the state and nation. Join us in demanding that Governor Paterson terminate the Secure Communities agreement and that the federal courts require ICE to share all documents on “opting out” of the program.* New York State should not cooperate with ICE in tearing apart immigrant families.

*After the rally, a federal judge presiding over NDLON v. ICE will consider an emergency injunction ordering ICE to make documents public regarding whether jurisdictions can refuse to participate in Secure Communities. Please come to the hearing to show your support for this injunction at 2:00 at US District Court at 500 Pearl Street, Courtroom 15C, NY, NY.