by: Paloma Esquivel

Isaura Garcia cries in Los Angeles on Aug. 15, 2011, as she recounts her arrest under the Department of Homeland Security Secure Communities Program, which requires police to submit suspects’ fingerprints to DHS so they can be cross-checked with federal deportation orders. Photo Credit:AP

A bill being drafted by a state legislator would limit local law enforcement from holding arrestees on behalf of immigration authorities seeking to deport them.

Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, said he is finalizing amendments to a bill that would be the first statewide measure to counter the Secure Communities enforcement program, which requires law enforcement agencies to forward to immigration authorities the fingerprints of all arrestees booked into local jails. …

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