San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 10, 2011 by Sarah Phelan
http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/05/10/legal-scholars-weigh-secure-communities
Kohli observed that given the economic crisis, cooperating with the feds’ controversial “Secure Communities” program also becomes a question of priorities…. noting that state and local governments facing restraints in terms of jail space and resources. “So, does it make us safer to lock up low-level offenders, people who we would otherwise never dream of locking up, particularly in the face of constraints at the state and local levels?”