Mark Krikorian

The bipartisan group of senators knows as The Gang of Eight will release their immigration reform bill this week. The proposal is expected to overhaul the current system and give mill...

"Secure Communities," the federal initiative by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is supposed to find and deport illegal immigrants who have committed violent crimes. ICE aims to do this by requiring states to forward the fingerprints of people booked by local police to federal immigration officials. But is that how the program really works? More than a fourth of the people deported under the Secure Communities policy have no criminal record at all. Some local law enforcement groups say that if illegal immigrants fear they'll be deported after interacting with the police, they will avoid calling them, even when crimes are being committed.

Ruben Navarrette, Jr., syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Group, Chung Wha Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition and Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, debate the pros and cons of the proposed Senate immigration bill.