Why did the White House just increase the budget for the Department of Homeland Security, including $184 million for the discredited Secure Communities?

Facts matter, and numbers don’t lie. The White House insists that the budget imposes a quota for deportations. If that were true, we would expect the President to defund programs like Secure Communities that are destroying public trust in law enforcement. The President cannot both acknowledge the ‘system is broken’ and still continue to fund it to the gills.” 

Statement from Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network