Secure Communities

Austin

Obama Immigration Plan May End City-County Tiff

Mark Richardson

From The Austin Monitor:It may have taken an executive order, but President Barack Obama seems to have headed off a dispute between the City of Austin and…
Austin

Austin City Council Seeks to Further Limit City's Role in Secure Communities Program

Lucia Benavides

The Austin City Council is taking steps to limit its role in Federal Secure Communities, a program that relies on partnerships among federal, state and…
Texas

Secure Communities Could Be Detaining Legal Asian Americans in Travis County

Joy Diaz

Last month, the Austin City Council signed a resolution to opt out of Secure Communities, a partnership between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)…