Shadow Report

NDLON and a National Community Advisory Commission published “RESTORING COMMUNITY: A National Community Advisory Report on ICE’s Failed “Secure Communities” Program,” an authoritative report on the failed Secure Communities program. Download available here or it can be read online below.

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The Real Impact of Police-ICE Collaboration: Click Here to Read More Testimonies from People Affected by S-Comm

Do you have a story to tell about S-Comm’s negative impact on you or someone you know? Please submit your story here.

Accompanying Online Reports:

• The Honorable Judge Bruce J. Einhorn (Ret.):  S-Comm Flies in the Face of US and International Law
• Lt. Col. Margaret Stock:  Erroneous Detention of US Citizens
• Linda Sarsour, National Network for Arab American Communities, The National Security Smokescreen
• Kali Akuno, USHRN: Human Rights Advocates Stand Opposed to S-Comm
• South Asian Americans Leading Together, Variations on a Theme:  Secure Communities, NSEERS, and Undermining Safety in the Name of National Security
• Collected Letters from Elected Officials Calling for Investigation or Termination of S-Comm
• Collected Local Resolutions Opposing S-Comm
• Immigrant Justice Network: Dangerous Merger:  Corrupting the Criminal Justice System for Immigration Enforcement
• National Immigration Law Center:  Prosecutorial Discretion Cannot Fix S-Comm

Collected Letters from Elected Officials Calling for Investigation or Termination of S-Comm

• Congressman Serrano Objects to New Secure Communities Policy (Aug 10, 2011)
• September 15th Boston Forum on S-Comm and Immigration Enforcement (June 13, 2011)
• Los Angeles Congressional Delegation Calls on Governor Brown to Suspend California’s Participation in S-Comm (June 10, 2011)
• Congressional Progressive Caucus Calls for a National Moratorium on S-Comm (June 6, 2011)
• Massachusetts Governor Patrick Refuses to Sign an S-Comm MOA (June 3, 2011)
• New York Governor Cuomo Suspends New York’s Participation in S-Comm (June 1, 2011)
• Los Angeles City Councilmember and Former Police Chief Bernard Parks Tells Governor Brown that S-Comm Undermines Local Law Enforcement (May 24, 2011)
• Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) Requests S-Comm Investigation Begin Immediately (May 17, 2011)
• Congressman Serrano Urges Gov. Cuomo to Withdraw from S-Comm (May 16, 2011)
• 50 New York State Senators Call for End to S-Comm in New York (June 1, 2011)
• Congressional Hispanic Caucus Calls for a National Moratorium on S-Comm (May 5, 2011)
• Governor Quinn Terminates Illinois’ Participation in S-Comm (May 4, 2011)
• Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) Demands an Investigation into S-Comm Lies (April 28, 2011)

Collected Local Resolutions Opposing S-Comm

If your town or city has passed a resolution against S-Comm, and you don’t see it here, please email mloera@ndlon.org to add it to the list!

• Springfield, MA (July 19, 2011, passed)
• Philadelphia, PA (June 23, 2011, passed)
• Baltimore, MD (June 13, 2011, passed)
• Los Angeles (May 24, 2011, passed)
• Providence, RI (March 3, 2011, passed)
• New York, NY (Nov. 17, 2010, introduced)
• Arlington, VA (Sept. 28, 2010, passed)
• Santa Clara County, CA (Sept. 28, 2010, passed)
• San Francisco, CA (June 8, 2010, passed)
• Washington D.C. (May 4, 2010, introduced*):

* Metro Police Chief Cathy Lanier rescinded Washington, D.C.’s S-Comm MOA on July 22, 2010 following a spirited City Council hearing on the anti-S-Comm resolution

National Community Advisory Commission Members

• Asian Law Caucus
• CASA de Maryland
• CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos
• Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
• Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition
• Detention Watch Network
• Grassroots Leadership
• Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center
• National Day Laborer Organizing Network
• National Immigrant Justice Center
• National Immigration Law Center
• National Immigration Project of the National Lawyer’s Guild
• Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights
• Rights Working Group
• Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
• We-Count!

List of Organizations Endorsing Report

Endorse the report!  Sign up your organization using the formbelow.

• AIM-WEST
• Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
• Boodlebags
• Boston New Sanctuary Movement
• CAAAV Organizing Asian Communties
• California Immigrant Policy Center
• Cambridge United for Justice with Peace
• Casa de Esperanza
• Casa Esperanza
• Casa Latina
• Causa Justa::Just Cause
• Center for Critical Environmental & Global Literacy (CCEGL)
• Central American Resource Center, Los Angeles
• Central Florida Jobs with Justice
• Central Ohio Immigrant Justice
• CEO Pipe Organs/Golden Ponds Farm
• Coalicion de Organizaciones Latino-Americanas
• Coastal Progressives
• communities engaged in global justice
• Concilio Latino de Salud, Inc.
• Confession Zero
• DC Latino Caucus
• DREAM Activist Virginia
• Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
• East Bay Sanctuary Covenant
• East Bay Saturday Dialogues
• El CENTRO de Igualdad y Derechos
• El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolas
• El Paracaidista: la guía del recién llegado y de todos
• Escondido Human Rights Committee
• Families for Freedom
• Fuerza Laboral
• Georgia Detention Watch
• Graton Day Labor Center
• Greater New York Labor-Religion Coalition
• Grow Your Oakland
• Guyanese American Workers United
• Hispanic/Latinos A-D Coalition, San Francisco
• Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, Little Lake, Michigan
• Hope CommUnity Center
• House of David Community Building Project
• Hudson Valley Community Coalition
• Human Rights Council of Oceanside
• Human Rights Initiative of North Texas
• Hummingbird Collective
• Illinois Peoples Action and Latinos Unidos para Cambio
• Immigration Information Response Team
• Immigration Research Action committee of the North Bay Sponsoring Committee
• Interfaith Coalition on Immigration
• Interfaith Leadership Project
• Joe Ortiz Associates
• Justice, Peace and Ecology Office of the Midwest Capuchin-Franciscans
• Justicia Hoy
• La Red Xicana Indigena
• Latino Union of Chicago
• League of United Latin American Citizens, Council 4609
• Little Saigon Foundation
• Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance
• Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán de Yale
• National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• NDLON
• NE Iowa Peace & Justice Center, Inc.
• New Black Panther Party
• New Hampshire Alliance for Immigrants and Refugees
• North Carolina Justice Center
• OneAmerica
• Oregon New Sanctuary Movement
• Our Developing World
• Out4Immigration
• Pacific Southwest District/ Unitarian Universalist Association
• Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
• Popular Education Consultants
• Presente.org
• Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada
• PUEBLO
• Pueblo Sin Fronteras
• Quakers Concerned with Immigration Justice
• Rural Women’s Health Project / Voces de Inmigrantes en Acción
• Salvadoran American National Network (SANN)
• San Diego Foundation for Change
• San Francisco Gray Panthes
• San Jose Peace and Justice Center
• Services, Immigrant Rights & Education Network
• Shirlington Employment and Education Center
• Silicon Valley Alliance for Immigration Reform
• Sisters and Brothers of Immigrants
• Sisters of Mercy
• Sisters of Mercy West Midwest Justice Team
• Sisters of the Presentation
• Socorro Amistad ~ por la paz!
• South Asian Americans Leading Together
• Southside Worker Center
• St. Johns Lutheran Church
• Synagogue Hashem
• The Arab American Family Support Center
• The New Sanctuary Coalition of NYC
• The New York Immigration Coalition
• Tierra Y Libertad Organization-TYLO
• Unidad Latina en Accion NJ
• Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
• Unitarian Universalist Refugee and Immigrant Services and Education, Inc.
• US Human Rights Network
• Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project
• Voces de la Frontera
• Wind of the Spirit, Immigrant Resource Center
• Youth Making A Difference Y~MAD
• Zgress