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Secure Communities 2.0: Broken Promises and Broken Families

Communities within Los Angeles… References and Footnotes“L.A. County ends contract with ICE, then OKs future collaboration” Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ice-los-angeles-287g-20150512-story.html ↩Joseph Tanfani and Kate Linthicum, “L.A. County Ends Contract with ICE, Then OKs Future Collaboration,” Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2015, accessed May 27, 2015, http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ice-los-angeles-287g-20150512-story.html. ↩ “U.S. deportations of immigrants reach record high in 2013” Pew Research Center, October 2, 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/02/u-s-deportations-of-immigrants-reach-record-high-in-2013 ↩ “How to improve an immigration status check” The Washington Post, March 20, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-improve-an-immigration-status-check/2011/02/04/ABf93O3_story.html ↩ “Legitimacy Of Secure Communities Program Weakened,” ABC News/Univision, December 12, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/legitimacy-secure-communities-program-weakened/story?id=17921778 ↩“How to Improve an Immigration Status Check,” The Washington Post, March 20, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-improve-an-immigration-status-check/2011/02/04/ABf93O3_story.html ↩“Secure Communities,” Department of Homeland Security, November 20, 2014, http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/14_1120_memo_secure_communities.pdf ↩“PEP-Comm: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?” New America Media, November 25, 2014, http://newamericamedia.org/2014/11/pep-comm-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing.php ↩“Legal Noncitizens Receive Longest ICE Detention,” TRAC Immigration, June 3, 2013, http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/321 ↩ “Gov. Brown signs 'Trust Act' prohibiting detaining undocumented for deportation in minor arrests,” Southern California Public Radio, October 5, 2013, http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/10/05/39668/california-gov-jerry-brown-signs-trust-act-into-la/ ↩“Civillmmi Ration Enforcement: Guidance on the Use of Detainers in the Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Criminal Justice Systems,” Department of Homeland Security, December 21, 2012, http://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-reform/pdf/detainer-policy.pdf ↩ “Secretary Napolitano's Memorandum Concerning the Exercise of Prosecutorial Discretion for Certain Removable Individuals Who Entered the United States as a Child,” Department of Homeland Security, June 15, 2012,http://www.ice.gov/doclib/about/offices/ero/pdf/s1-certain-young-people-morton.pdf ↩ “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion Consistent with the Civil Immigration Enforcement Priorities of the Agency for the Apprehension, Detention, and Removal of Aliens” Department of Homeland Security, June 17, 2011, http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf ↩“Secure Communities and ICE Deportation: A Failed Program?” TRAC Immigration, April 8, 2014, http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/349 ↩“UIC: Latino Perceptions of Police Involvement in Immigration Enforcement,” National Day Laborer Organizing Network, May 8, 2013, http://www.ndlon.org/en/resources/item/791-uic-latino-perceptions ↩“Documents Reveal Pressure to Comply With Program to Deport Immigrants,” New York Times, March 26, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/us/27cncimmigration.html ↩“Trust Act Passed Too Late For Sacramento Mother,” ABC 7 News, June 18th, 2012, http://abc7news.com/archive/8741313/ ↩“Domestic-Violence Victim Calls 911 And Is Nearly Deported,” ABC 7 News, May 12, 2011, http://abc7.com/archive/8128621 ↩ “Noncriminals Swept up in Federal Deportation Program,” April 25, 2011, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/25/local/la-me-secure-communities-20110425 ↩

Partisanship at its Worst

In December 2015, President Obama and Congress will… References and Footnotes"Planned Parenthood at a Glance," Planned Parenthood at a Glance, Oct. 9, 2015. ↩Charles Cooke, "Dear GOP Leaders, Stop Being Cowards on the Abortion Fight," National Review, Jan. 22, 2015. ↩"Pregnancy: The Three Trimesters," Oct.10, 2015. ↩ Jeffery Toobin, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court,”Anchor, 2008. ↩ “Americans Agree With Banning ‘Partial-Birth Abortion,’" Gallup.com, Oct. 10, 2015. ↩Michelle Ye He Lee, "Does Obamacare Provide Federal Subsidies for Elective Abortions?" Washington Post, Jan. 26, 2015. ↩Steve Almacy, "Planned Parenthood Exec, Fetal Body Parts in Video,” CNN, July 15, 2015. ↩

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Prioritizing Our Communities

The late 1970s ushered in a new, post-industrial economic development model… References and FootnotesCasper-Futterman, Evan. “Back to (Non)Basics: Worker Cooperatives as Economic Development.” Berkeley Planning Journal: 24(1). 2011. ↩Newark, New Jersey 2012-2013 Community Needs Assessment. The Center for Collaborative Change. 2013.S ↩Casper-Futterman 2011. ↩Ibid. ↩Ibid ↩Ibid ↩

Voting Out: The Electoral College

The United States is currently exercising the… References and FootnotesJimmy Soni, "What Is The Electoral College? How It Works And Why It Matters," The Huffington Post, November 6, 2012, Accessed September 13, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/what-is-the-electoral-college_n_2078970.html ↩Richard Posner, “In Defense of the Electoral College," Slate, accessed September 13, 2015, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2012/11/defending_the_electoral_college.html ↩ John Samples, "In Defense of the Electoral College," Cato Institute, November 10, 2000, accessed September 13, 2015, http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/defense-electoral-college. ↩Nate Silver, "Would Al Gore Have Won in 2000 Without the Electoral College?" The New York Times, September 20, 2011, accessed September 13, 2015, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/would-al-gore-have-won-in-2000-without-the-electoral-college/?_r=0. ↩Markn Baldassare, Dean Bonner, David Kordus, and Lunna Lopes, "California Voter and Party Profiles,"PPIC Publication, August 1, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015, http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=526. ↩Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 11, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015, http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/populations/remp.html. ↩Jason Easley, "Racist Chickens Come Home To Roost As Donald Trump Leads The GOP In New Poll," Politicus USA, July 9, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015, http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/09/republicans-flipping-donald-trump-leads-gop-poll.html. ↩Jennifer Agiesta, "Donald Trump Tops 30%" CNN, September 10, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015, http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/politics/donald-trump-ben-carson-cnn-poll ↩Rick Ungar, "Trump Throws Constitution And 14th Amendment Under The Bus," Forbes, August 19, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015, http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2015/08/19/trump-throws-constitution-and-14th-amendment-under-the-bus ↩