Together with more than 100 other national organizations and several hundred regional and local groups, the Fellowship of Reconciliation last week called on the Obama administration to end a controversial program that has been accused of widespread racial profiling and anti-immigrant bias. The 287(g) program, implemented by the Department of Homeland Security during the Bush administration, grants to state and local law enforcement agencies the power of federal immigration enforcement authority, and the program has been accused of serious civil and human rights abuses.
Facilitated by the Detention Watch Network and the National Immigration law Center, the following sign-on letter, to which FOR was a lead signatory, was released on August 27th. The text of the letter follows.
The President
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
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