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iiclr-25079	Scheid, Lauren	Immigrants Made America Great: Contemporary Overview of the Executive Authority for Regulation of U.S. Immigration Policy	2021	12	.pdf	application/pdf	4959	242	41	However, the majority of these “criminal” deportations were a result of entrants being in the U.S. illegally–not because they had committed other crimes on U.S. soil.21 When President Obama took office, he inherited robust new legal mechanisms for curbing illegal immigration and related concerns.22 In 2008, the Obama administration (re)implemented the Secure Communities Program which seeks to identify immigrants who are deportable for violations of U.S. immigration law.23 Jails that participate in the program must submit fingerprint data of arrestees to both criminal and immigration databases to determine if an arrestee has violated immigration policy.24 ICE can then decide whether to take the arrestee into federal custody.25 This program thus empowers 16. Cohn, How U.S. immigration laws and rules have changed through history, PEW RES.	cache/iiclr-25079.pdf	txt/iiclr-25079.txt