Secure Communities
E99011
Secure Communities is a U.S. immigration enforcement program that integrates local law enforcement fingerprint data with federal immigration databases to identify and facilitate the removal of deportable noncitizens.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Secure Communities canonical | 1 |
| Secure Communities program | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T838262 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secure Communities Context triple: [Immigration and Customs Enforcement, usesProgram, Secure Communities]
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A.
The Essence of Security
"The Essence of Security" is a book by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that outlines his views on national security, nuclear strategy, and defense policy during the Cold War.
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B.
Security Area
The Security Area is the segment of the IETF responsible for developing and overseeing standards and protocols related to Internet and network security.
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C.
Securitate
Securitate was the notorious secret police and intelligence service of communist Romania, known for its extensive surveillance, repression, and control over the population.
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D.
Regional Security System
The Regional Security System is a Caribbean collective defense organization comprising several Eastern Caribbean states that coordinates regional security, law enforcement, and military cooperation.
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E.
One Vision, One Identity, One Community
"One Vision, One Identity, One Community" is the official motto of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), expressing its aspiration for regional unity and shared identity among member states.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Secure Communities Target entity description: Secure Communities is a U.S. immigration enforcement program that integrates local law enforcement fingerprint data with federal immigration databases to identify and facilitate the removal of deportable noncitizens.
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A.
The Essence of Security
"The Essence of Security" is a book by former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that outlines his views on national security, nuclear strategy, and defense policy during the Cold War.
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B.
Security Area
The Security Area is the segment of the IETF responsible for developing and overseeing standards and protocols related to Internet and network security.
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C.
Securitate
Securitate was the notorious secret police and intelligence service of communist Romania, known for its extensive surveillance, repression, and control over the population.
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D.
Regional Security System
The Regional Security System is a Caribbean collective defense organization comprising several Eastern Caribbean states that coordinates regional security, law enforcement, and military cooperation.
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E.
One Vision, One Identity, One Community
"One Vision, One Identity, One Community" is the official motto of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), expressing its aspiration for regional unity and shared identity among member states.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
United States federal program
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immigration enforcement program ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
deportable noncitizens
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noncitizens ⓘ removable noncitizens ⓘ |
| controversy |
allegations of increased racial profiling
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concerns about due process for noncitizens ⓘ criticism for involving local police in federal immigration enforcement ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| criticizedBy |
civil liberties groups
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immigrant rights organizations ⓘ some state and local officials ⓘ |
| dataFlow |
DHS checks fingerprints against immigration databases
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FBI forwards fingerprints to DHS ⓘ local arrest fingerprints sent to FBI ⓘ |
| dataType |
biometric identifiers
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criminal history information ⓘ |
| expandedNationwideBy | 2013 ⓘ |
| focus |
noncitizens arrested by local law enforcement
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noncitizens with criminal convictions ⓘ |
| goal |
enhance immigration enforcement through information sharing
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facilitate removal of deportable noncitizens ⓘ identify removable noncitizens in local custody ⓘ |
| implementedBy | state and local law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| legalBasis |
Immigration and Nationality Act
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federal immigration law ⓘ |
| method |
automatic biometric data sharing between local and federal agencies
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interoperability of fingerprint databases ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Enforcement and Removal Operations
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surface form:
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations
United States Department of Homeland Security ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Immigration and Customs Enforcement ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
|
| pilotImplementationLocation |
Harris County
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surface form:
Harris County, Texas
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| policyType | interior immigration enforcement ⓘ |
| primaryInput |
biometric data
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fingerprint data ⓘ |
| reactivatedBy | Trump administration ⓘ |
| reactivationDate | 2017 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
287(g) program
ⓘ
Priority Enforcement Program ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Priority Enforcement Program ⓘ |
| resultOfMatch |
ICE enforcement action
ⓘ
immigration status determination ⓘ |
| startDate | 2008 ⓘ |
| suspendedBy |
Barack Obama presidency
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surface form:
Obama administration
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| suspensionDate | 2014 ⓘ |
| usesDataFrom |
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
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surface form:
Automated Biometric Identification System
DHS immigration databases ⓘ FBI fingerprint database ⓘ Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ IDENT ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Secure Communities Description of subject: Secure Communities is a U.S. immigration enforcement program that integrates local law enforcement fingerprint data with federal immigration databases to identify and facilitate the removal of deportable noncitizens.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Secure Communities program