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Dionicia Martinez was deported after living and working in California for over a decade. (Photo: John Russo.)

By: SARAH MACPHERSON*
Channel: Immigration

What began as a high school scuffle just before Christmas break, ended days later with the parents of a student being deported to Mexico. The episode in question did not take place in Arizona or Alabama but in the liberal San Francisco Bay Area where one county has embarked on an aggressive implementation of Obama’s “Secure Communities” program, in which local police refer undocumented immigrants to Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents regardless of whether they have been convicted of a crime. The arrest and deportation of the married couple cut short a family odyssey of hope and hard work and begs the question of just whose communities are made secure by this program.

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