KQED-FM, May 31, 2011 by Erika Kelly
http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201105311730/a
“The way Secure Communities normally works is that someone’s brought into the jail, their fingerprints are taken and then checked against immigration databases. If there’s anything that raises ICE’s suspicions within those databases, they ask the local sheriffs or police departments to detain this person…. One of the main objections is that the vast majority of people who are actually being detained and sent to ICE are low-level offenders, and not murderers, rapists, criminals, terrorists, which is what the federal government had said the program was in place for.”