AFL-CIO To Napolitano: Cut DHS Ties With AZ Over Immigration Law

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano
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The country’s biggest union has a request for Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano: Stop dealing with Arizona.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, have written Napolitano a tough letter expressing “deep concerns” over the Department of Homeland Security’s “continued cooperation” with Arizona law enforcement in light of the state’s controversial new immigration law.

“Unless DHS terminates all 287(g) program agreements in Arizona, the federal government will be complicit in the racial profiling that lies at the heart of the Arizona law,” they write.

Read the letter here.

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