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The Feds will begin using fingerprints from NYPD arrests to round up illegal immigrants, despite objections from Governor Cuomo and other New York city officials. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told the NYPD and other local police departments in New York that the controversial Secure Communities program will be activated across the state. The program is already running- feeding fingerprint information from the local police to Homeland Security through the FBI.

Last June, Gov. Cuomo unsuccessfully tried to pull New York from the program, which the Feds initially characterized as voluntary, but Homeland Security officials now say it is mandatory. ICE calls Secure Communities their “single most valuable tool” to find and deport dangerous criminals.

The...

Read more: THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TAKES ARREST DATA OF IMMIGRANTS.

French Interior Ministry announced that it has deported two muslims and plans to expel more in a crackdown after the killing of seven Jewish people by a suspected extremist. A statement by Interior Minister Claude Gueant said the moves were part of “an acceleration of the deportation procedures of foreign Islamic radicals.”

An Islamic militant from Algeria who was involved in the 1994 attacks in Marrakech, Morocco, was sent to his home country, the statement said. In addition, a Malian Imam was returned to his home country for sermons promoting anti-Semitism and rejection of the

West, he said. Deportation proceedings have also started or are planned against three others: They are an Imam...

Read more: FRANCE DEPORTS ISLAMIC RADICALS.

Criminals across the country are raking in billions of dollars in tax refunds through a new and brazen form of fraud that takes advantage of the IRS’s fast online returns, law enforcement officials say.

Using laptops and free Wi-Fi connections, criminals are stealing identities and using the names of legitimate taxpayers to file fraudulent online tax returns. They have raked in billions, buying luxury cars, expensive jewelry and plastic surgery, police said.

“It is like the Federal Government is putting crack cocaine in candy machines” said Detective Craig Catlin of the North Miami Beach, Florida, Police Department. “It is that easy.” First, thieves obtain Social Security numbers and other personal information from insiders at hospitals, doctor’s offices...

Read more: IRS POLICIES HELP FUEL TAX REFUND FRAUD, OFFICIALS SAY.

Intercontinental grocery shopping, a recently launched website offers a new way for Guineans

abroad to support family back home. As an alternative to traditional funds transfer companies,

Wontara.com gives Guinean migrants the opportunity to buy groceries online so recipients in

Guinea can immediately pick them up from their local grocer against a simple phone transaction, or

even have them delivered to their home.

Forty one year-old Guinean engineer, Aboubakar Kourouma-founder of the project, said this “e-

social transfer” is a new concept that aims to ensure food security and contribute to the local

economy. Kourouma came to France six years ago with no papers. The idea for Wontara came

to him while working...

Read more: GUINEAN IMMIGRANTS IN FRANCE SEND FOOD HOME ONLINE