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Hundreds of protesters behind me. they just made their way across the brooklyn bridge into folly square. this is where the rally ends and were skpengting a press conference. these people are mostly pro-immigrant groups and also workers rights groups, and theyre actually here to protest against arizona, the end of the 1070 arizona legislation, the parts that were temporarily blocked, apparently its not enough. they say theres still a lot to fight in terms of other programs like 287-g or secure co...

That. it is all done electronically. if you get a hit theres a holder put on immediately. >> greta: in terms of the ice database everybody in the ice database someone who has committed or -- a crime or lawful fully this country? >> basically the way i understand it is people that have a criminal history thats what we are interested in we deport from my jail in butler county roughly 30 a week from all over the world. we have 287-g in my county. theres five counties in ohio that have this new secu...

That. it is all done electronically. if you get a hit theres a holder put on immediately. >> greta: in terms of the ice database everybody in the ice database someone who has committed or -- a crime or lawful fully this country? >> basically the way i understand it is people that have a criminal history thats what we are interested in we deport from my jail in butler county roughly 30 a week from all over the world. we have 287-g in my county. theres five counties in ohio that have this new secu...

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Doctors degrees and they cant give back because of the fact that they have undocumented status. >> so tell me about this walk and how you feel the dream act to impact your life in addition to other kids, adults like you of immigrants. >> this walk -- well, first of all, the walk, we did the walk because we wanted to end the nightmare of racial profiling programs such as 287-g, and we wanted to pass the dream. we want the dream act to pass, and thats why we went city to city, small town to small ...

>> greta: doing research for tonights segment i learned about 287 section g. what is that? >> that is a cross polination for law enforcement with immigration ice enforcement. it is just training offered to state and local police to hone their skills and immigration law as well as cultural diversity and a hot of other training to help combat the illegal immigration issue as it relates to criminal aliens. >> greta: if ive got this right, thats a section of federal law, which sets up a program to w...

Out. i guess because arizona is getting heat for trying to figure out if someone is here illegally or not. you are in partnership oddly enough with the federal government on this i know massachusetts is not part of this 287-g, it is sort of bizarre that your state has a specific partnership, arizona is getting heat and massachusetts doesnt do any of this. >> we are just doing our job. in this partnership, if you will, for over a year. it works well for our troopers. again, the troopers arent out...

We had an influx of crimes committed by illegal aliens in rhode island. as you know we are a small state of about a million people. and the state police has statewide jurisdiction. we partnered with ice in a program introductory ice program for all troopers in rhode island. in 2008, governor issued an executive order allowing the state police to engage in this 287-g program. at that time, there was a push-back by some community leaders, in my opinion for personal gain. they thought we were going...

Getting heat for trying to figure out if someone is here illegally or not. you are in partnership oddly enough with the federal government on this i know massachusetts is not part of this 287-g, it is sort of bizarre that your state has a specific partnership, arizona is getting heat and massachusetts doesnt do any of this. >> we are just doing our job. in this partnership, if you will, for over a year. it works well for our troopers. again, the troopers arent out looking for someone here illega...

We had an influx of crimes committed by illegal aliens in rhode island. as you know we are a small state of about a million people. and the state police has statewide jurisdiction. we partnered with ice in a program introductory ice program for all troopers in rhode island. in 2008, governor issued an executive order allowing the state police to engage in this 287-g program. at that time, there was a push-back by some community leaders, in my opinion for personal gain. they thought we were going...