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June 7, 2011

Massachusetts Gov. Patrick Refuses to Participate in Controversial Immigrant Monitoring Program 
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Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has announced he will refuse to sign
the state up for a controversial federal program that requires local
police to forward fingerprints of every person they arrest to the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security. The program, called Secure Communities,
allows federal immigration agents to pursue deportation against those
found to be undocumented or a non-citizen with a criminal record. Last
week New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo suspended New York's involvement in the
Secure Communities program. Illinois pulled out of the program in May.
Two other states—Washington and Minnesota—have declined to join the
program.



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