Salvador Licea shares his experience with the ICE Secure Communities Program.
Stokely Baksh and Renée Feltz
Salvador Licea is an undocumented immigrant who has lived in Texas for most of his life. Recently, he was pulled over for a minor traffic violation and subsequently arrested for having an expired license. Although nothing on his record fits the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) description of a "dangerous, criminal alien," his finger prints were taken as part of the Secure Communities Program, and he now faces deportation. Later he was told that he was pulled over because his age and skin color fit the description of a drug lord or gang banger.
—Anna Lekas Miller
Stokely BakshStokely Baksh is a multimedia investigative reporting team based in Baltimore, MD and the co-producer of DeportationNation.org, funded in part by a Soros Justice Fellowship, a program of the Open Society Institute.
Renée FeltzRenée Feltz is an award-winning investigative journalist who covers immigration and criminal justice. She was a longtime senior producer for Democracy Now! and has also reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Intercept, Mother Jones, Rewire, The Nation, The Texas Observer, The Indypendent, and elsewhere.