ICE folds in FOIA case, admits Secure Communities mandatory in 2013

"In a 9-page memo dated Oct. 2, 2010, and released recently, a legal advisor for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said at that time that "choices available to law enforcement agencies who have thus far decided to decline or limit their participation in current information-sharing processes will be streamlined and aspects eliminated. In that way, the process, in essence, becomes 'mandatory' in 2013." - Paloma Esquivel, L.A. Times, Jan. 8, 2012.

"The Obama Administration has quietly thrown in the towel in a long-running battle to prevent disclosure of internal legal memos about its plans to force local law enforcement agencies to participate in the controversial immigration-enforcement system known as Secure Communities. The government also admitted it made an embarrassing mistake by giving a federal judge false information last year about the circulation of one of the documents." - Politico, Jan. 9, 2012.