Arlington County Government, VA Emergency Management, 1 Jul 2010

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From YouTube: Newsmakers; Secure Communities

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News Segments featuring people and events in Arlington County VA,

A

It was a packed house for the latest Latino round table, as community members saw answers to Arlington's inclusion in the contentious Secure Communities program. The program is a federal initiative, not an Arlington County initiative and applies only to those who break the law. I think.

B

This event was convened so that we can learn more about the Secure Communities program to learn more about. What's this, actual impact is going to be on the way police conduct its work and how the county does its work and how the jail is going to work. Visa V non-citizens today.

C

We want to educate the community and answer questions about the so-called secure communities. This is something that our internal did not choose to participate in. That has been suddenly brought upon us and appears to be an agreement between the Homeland Security's through the immigration, customs enforcement and the Commonwealth of Virginia, and we want to know what does that mean for our community if.

D

We come to find out maybe two months ago that state entered into the Secure Communities agreement, which we feel tears at the fabric of Arlington with it. You know it destroys that that welcoming atmosphere of different cultures so we're working towards looking and looking for answers to see. If, if we can understand better, why this happened and see what we can do to change it, I.

B

Think that we need to look to see what is to doing what is secure committees? How is it going to impact our their trade offs or their costs that we don't know about how many resources are going to federal immigration enforcement from County resources, and how does that make the community feel do kameez really feel safe with a program like secure communities despite its name, we.

E

Know that it's very important that everyone in our community feel safe to report crimes and when we have populations within our community that have that broken trust with the police, everyone's Public Safety suffers. The facts show that the majority of the people who have been found and deported under this program have been charged with minor offenses. So, while the program says it goes serious criminals, the numbers don't lie. Comuna.

C

Has a lot of questions that need to be answered and those bad actors and the ones defending may not be the only ones who get caught in this. My.

F

Message here tonight will be there's no changes for how we interact with our our community in any way and secure communities is an initiative that only occurs post-arrest in the jail and from what I understand it is still concentrating on those most serious offenders. If they need to call the police they need to engage the police. Please call us we're here to help them, and you know they can expect the same level service from our officers that they've enjoyed over the past several years. Arlington.

C

Has not changed our policy at all in any way, shape or form. We continue to be a community, that's inclusive and each person is important. A police department has not is not and will not be stopping people to just to ask them for the immigration status. We are Arlington, we're not Arizona, and we don't want this type of initiative, force, abundance and many answers that we still don't have, because this is fairly new.