Driving While Immigrant

In a report for The Nation, 2010 Soros Justice Media Fellows Renée Feltz and Stokely Baksh explore how the Obama administration is trying to salvage its Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, even as governors and advocates alike say it leads to racial profiling.

While Secure Communities is supposed to target “dangerous criminal aliens,” the Nation article points out that this "has been undermined by ICE's [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's] own data, which show that the majority of those it deports have no criminal record or were charged with minor offenses like traffic tickets."

Feltz and Baksh follow Secure Communities and other immigration issues for DeportationNation.org, home to their independent investigative reporting project that critically examines deportation of innocent and low-level immigrant offenders as a result of enforcement programs mandated to target “dangerous criminal aliens.”