Report: InSecure Communities: Borders at Our Doors How “Secure Communities” Brings the Fear of the Border to Champaign County Since the initial release of Immigration Enforcement: The Dangerous Reality Behind “Secure Communities” by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) in early 2011, a growing number of communities and states have sought to withdraw or limit the impact of this controversial deportation program. In May of 2011, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced that Illinois would withdraw from the “Secure Communities” program and stated that “ICE's statistics on the Secure Communities program... reveal that the implementation of the Secure Communities program in Illinois is contrary to the stated purpose of the MOA [Memorandum of Agreement]: … by ICE's own measure, less than 20% of those who have been deported from Illinois under the program have ever been convicted of a serious crime.” A...
