The Secure Communities Program

question 34

Multiple Choice

The Secure Communities program

• A)required state and local authorities to check the fingerprints of people being booked into jail against a Homeland Security database.
• B)prevented state and local authorities from asking suspected criminals to show proof of citizenship upon arrest.
• C)offered state and local authorities federal reimbursement for money spent processing undocumented immigrants.
• D)forbade federal immigration officials from deporting undocumented immigrants who had not been convicted of a felony.

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