Latinos unfair target of Obama deportation program

The Obama administration’s efforts to round up and deport illegal immigrants is unfairly targeting Latinos, a new study shows, complicating the president’s efforts to reconnect with the Hispanic community that helped propel him into office in 2008.

More than 93 percent of the people arrested under President Obama’s Secure Communities program are Hispanic — even though Hispanics account for 75 percent of the immigrants now living illegally in the United States, according to the study by the University of California at Berkeley, law school and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.