On October 19, 2011, the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy of the University of California-Berkley, released its report titled “Se Communities by the Numbers: An Analysis of Demographics and Due Process” on Se Communities. Se Communities, or S-Comm, is an immigration enforcement program launched in 2008 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) which utilizes local law enforcement resources to enforce federal immigration laws, largely through the data sharing of fingerprint records. The program was advanced in secrecy despite significant public outcry over its devastating effects on communities, costs to local police and reports that crime victims feared coming forward due to the program.
The report relies on data from federal agencies obtained following Freedom of Information Act litigation brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with the National DayLaborer Organizing Network (NDLON), and the Immigration Justice Clinic of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.