The federal government is forcing Montgomery County to participate in a deportation program for violent illegal immigrants that county officials have resisted implementing, according to a Department of Homeland Security official. The Secure Communities program, run by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reviews all fingerprints from local jails to identify illegal immigrants. If inmates are found to be illegal, ICE can deport them.
The county only provides fingerprints of some illegal immigrants who have been charged with violent crimes to ICE under its present policy.
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