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Feds Seek to Revamp Immigration Enforcement

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Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson wants to revamp the federal immigration enforcement program.

Johnson said the Secure Communities Program has become very controversial and needs a "fresh start."

The program allows immigration officials to ask local law enforcement to detain people who match in a federal database for immigration violations.

Those people can then be deported.

The program has led to complaints that people are being deported for immigration violations without being convicted of any crime or with only minor offenses.

President Barack Obama is trying to make executive changes because immigration legislation is stalled in the House.

Meanwhile, authorities in Arizona say a wrong-way driver who crashed into an off-duty Arizona police officer, killing him, had a blood-alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit.

Authorities say Raul Silva Corona, 42, had driven 35 miles in the wrong direction on three freeways early Monday when he collided into a car driven by Mesa Police Officer Brandon Mendoza.

Both men were killed.

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