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immigrant rights group that is active in the county. “Even one family destroyed because of this kind of program makes it unac- ceptable.” John Erzen, a spokesman for
the Prince George’s Department of Corrections, and Maj. Andrew Ellis, a county police spokesman, said they were not aware of any police or jail practices that could explain the numbers. They said that federal authorities decide whom to detain and deport through Secure Communities, which will soon be operating across the country. The program uses fingerprints
collected by local authorities when people are charged with anything from a traffic violation to murder. After the prints are run through a federal database, anyone found to be in the United States illegally can be ordered detained while federal authori- ties initiate deportation proceed- ings.
Criminals, noncriminals Launched by the George W.
Bushadministrationandexpand- ed dramatically by the Obama administration, Secure Commu- nities is primarily designed to target and deport violent crimi- nals. But it also identifies visa violators, fugitives and those who have crossed the border illegally before. Beth Gibson, assistant deputy
director of ICE, said that some of those listed as noncriminals may have been removed before legal proceedings were completed against them. A person charged with assault and fingerprinted by police, for example, may have been released on bail on the criminal charge and then de- tained by ICE and deported on immigration charges before the criminal charge was fully prose- cuted, she said. (Although being in the country
without papers can sometimes be a crime — especially when the person is a repeat offender — undocumented immigration is usually an administrative viola- tion.)
BrianHale, an ICE spokesman,
said thatsomeof the people listed as noncriminals may have previ- ously entered the country illegal- ly, which is a federal felony if charges are successfully pressed, or may have been fugitives. As an example, he cited the jurisdiction with the country’s highest rate of noncriminal deportation: Jeffer- son Parish in Louisiana. Fifty-three of the 146 noncrim-
inal immigrants removed from the parish “were illegal reen- trants or fugitives,” Hale said in an e-mail. “Other aliens, even if not illegal reentrants or fugitives, may have a lengthy immigration history or have been encountered multiple times at the border.” Gibson and Hale said that the
agency has a mandate to remove people who are in the country illegally, regardless of whether they have been found guilty of a crime. “Our prioritization of crimi-
nals and fugitives does not amount to a de facto amnesty for people who are not criminals and fugitives,” Gibson said.
Politics of enforcement The Obama administration
has sought to demonstrate that it is serious about enforcement even as it has pushed for an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws. But reform has stalled de- spite a record number of deporta- tions over the past two years. On Saturday, a measure that
would have created a path to citizenship for hundreds of thou- sands of undocumented immi-
Noncriminal deportations
Obama administration officials have said that their immigration enforcement program is an effective way to deport illegal immigrants who are dangerous criminals. Federal statistics show that many illegal immi- grants who have been deported through the Secure Communities program were not criminals.
NONCRIMINAL ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS DEPORTED, highest percentage, nationwide*
1. Jefferson Parish, La. (93 of 136)
3. Philadelphia (55 of 85)
Nationwide average (13,054 of 50,972)
Other local areas Fairfax County
(102 of 389) Prince William County
(16 of 105) SOURCE: Staff reports
* Trough July 31. THE WASHINGTON POST
grants who were brought to the United States as children died in the Senate, with opponents call- ing it backdoor amnesty for law- breakers. Deporting nearly 800,000 un-
documented immigrants has failed to satisfy Obama’s critics, who say they don’t think he has been tough enough in going after the country’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. At the same time, the stepped-up enforce- ment has alienated some Latino voters and their advocates. A senior White House official
who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly said that Secure Communities has re- moved a large number of illegal immigrants who were not violent threats to public safety. The offi- cial also said that the program’s priorities are in the right place and that the percentage of violent and dangerous criminals being removed would continue to climb. Until a few months ago, the
government was reporting an even higher number of noncrimi- nal deportations through Secure Communities than current fig- ures. Statistics through the end of
April show that 45 percent of the undocumented immigrants de- ported via the program had not been convicted of any crime. After the deportations had
been completed, a manual audit of the cases found that many people listed as noncriminals had criminal histories,Hale said. As a result, the number of deportations
noncriminal
through July 31 dropped across the country. InMaricopa County, the deportation rate for noncrim- inals fell from 54 percent through April to 32 percent through July. In San Diego, the numbers fell from 63 to 21 percent. The number of noncriminals removed from Prince George’s was initially listed as 74 percent but dropped to 67 percent. “Do we trust the July numbers,
the April numbers or neither?” asked Bridget Kessler, a clinical teaching fellow at the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice Clinic inNewYork, which is suing ICE for information about the Secure Communities program on behalf of an immigrant rights group known as theNational Day Laborer Organizing Network. “The program isn’t doing what ICE had said it was meant to do.”
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15.2% 68.3%
2. Prince George’s County 67.4% (58 of 86)
64.7% 25.6% 26.2%
KLMNO OBITUARIES
Rita S. DeCamp SECRETARY
Rita
S.DeCamp, 86,whowas a
secretary in the chemistry de- partment at the University of Maryland during the early 1980s, died Dec. 11 at theHebrewHome of Greater Washington in Rock- ville of complications frompneu- monia. Mrs. DeCamp sang in the
choir at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Silver Spring, where she was a member, and volunteered at the Smithsonian Gardens inWashington. Rita Marie Stransky was born
in Riverside, Iowa, andmoved to theWashington region in 1964. Her husband of 57 years, Paul
W. DeCamp, died in 2004. Survivors include eight chil-
dren, Susan DeCamp, Paul De- Camp and John DeCamp, all of Silver Spring, James DeCamp of Kensington, Mary Cuthbertson of Lexington, S.C., Ann DeCamp of Scotch Plains, N.J., Karen De- Camp of Baltimore and Joseph DeCamp of Carlsbad, Calif.; a sister; 15 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. —LaurenWiseman
Helen E. Crouch
SECRETARY Helen E. Crouch, who worked
for more than 20 years as a secretary in the Office of the Secretary ofDefense, diedNov. 12 at CapitalHospice’sHalquistMe- morial Inpatient Center in Ar- lington County. She was 94 and had vascular disease. Mrs. Crouch retired in 1974.
She previously had worked for the U.S. Public Health Service in the late 1930s. Helen Edelinwas born in Cap-
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itol Hill inWashington and, with the exception of two years in California in the 1940s, spent all of her life in the Washington area. She attendedWashington-Lee
High School in Arlington before graduating fromthe oldWestern High School in Washington in 1934. Her husband of 15 years,How-
ard Crouch, died in 1954. Mrs. Crouch, who raised her
four young children alone, be- came the matriarch and main- stay of a large extended family. She lived in Arlington’s Lyon Village from1950 until her death. She was a volunteer with
Meals on Wheels and was a member of the Community Unit- ed Methodist Church in Arling- ton. She also was active with her Washington-Lee High School so- rority, which met as a sewing circle from the 1930s until the 1990s. Survivors include four chil-
dren, Richard E. Crouch of Ar- lington, Howard R. Crouch of Fairfax County, Stephanie C. Bur- gess of Hillsboro, Va., and John Douglas Crouch of Arlington; nine grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. —Emma Brown
Clifford L. Netherton
D.C. TEACHER Clifford L. Netherton, who
was a physical education teacher and coach in D.C. public schools for 25 years and played a key role in advancing the sport of casting, died Dec. 5 of heart disease at his home in Great Falls.He was 100. Mr. Netherton taught at
Woodrow Wilson High School and at Anacostia High School before retiring in 1967. He then became chairman of the physical education department at North- ern Virginia Community College, a position he held until 1972. Outside of work, Mr. Nether-
ton was an enthusiastic angler who often taught school and scout groups how to fish. He was a former member of the Ameri- can Casting Association and helped found the International Casting Sport Federation. He helped gain recognition for the sport of casting fromthe Interna- tional Olympic Committee in the mid-1950s. In 1973, he was elect- ed to the American Casting Asso- ciation’s hall of fame. He wrote several books about
fishing and casting: “Angling and Casting: A Manual for Self and Class Instruction”; “History of
OF NOTE
Walt Dropo BASEBALL PLAYER
Walt Dropo, 87, who played 13
seasons in the majors and won the 1950 American League Rook- ie of the Year award with the Boston Red Sox, died Dec. 17 of undisclosed causes. Mr. Dropo’s death was an-
nounced in a statement fromthe University of Connecticut, where he was a three-sport star in the 1940s. In 1950, Mr. Dropo beat out
New York Yankees pitcher Whit- ey Ford to win AL Rookie of the Year honors after batting .322 with 34 home runs and a league- best 144 RBIs in 136 games. He also made his only All-Star team that year. “Walt Dropo was one of the
greatest players the Red Sox had in the post-World War II era,” said Dick Bresciani, the team’s vice president of publications and archives. A broken wrist slowed Mr.
Dropo in 1951 and he was never able to match his outstanding rookie numbers. The first base- man batted .270with 152 homers and 704 RBIs during his career. He was traded by Boston to the Detroit Tigers in 1952 and also played for the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds and Balti- more Orioles. Shortly after being traded to
Detroit in 1952, Mr. Dropo tied a major league record that still stands when he got hits in 12 consecutive trips to the plate. During that streak. He also tied another big
league mark that’s still in place when he totaled 15 hits in a four-game span. Born Jan. 30. 1923,Mr. Dropo
was raised in a small Connecti- cut village andwas affectionately nicknamed “The Moose from Moosup.” He played football, basketball
and baseball at UConn in a career that was interrupted by three years of military service duringWorldWar II. He graduated in 1947 as
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UConn’s career-scoring leader in basketball, but turned down of- fers to play professional football and basketball to sign with the Red Sox. More than 60 years after his
college basketball career ended, Mr. Dropo still ranks second in career-scoring average at UConn at 20.7 points per game.
Jacqueline de Romilly CLASSICS SCHOLAR
French scholar Jacqueline de SF
Romilly, a specialist on ancient Greece, a prolific writer and one of the first women to join the prestigious Academie Francaise, died Dec. 18 at a hospital in the
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Walt Dropo in 1950, when he was AL Rookie of the Year.
Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billan- court. She was 97. President Nicolas Sarkozy
called Ms. de Romilly “a great humanist whose voice we will miss.” The scholar was known for
herworks on ancient Greek liter- ature, tragedy and thought. She wrote several books on ancient historian Thucydides. At age 91,Ms. de Romilly told
French magazine Lire that she had spent more time with “Peri- cles and Aeschylus than with my contemporaries. They fillmy life, frommorning to night.” Among female academics in
France, Ms. de Romilly was a pioneer. Shewas the firstwoman to teach at the College de France. In 1988, she became the second woman to join the Academie Francaise, the institution that safeguards the French language, after writer Marguerite Yource- nar.
“I had the luck of being part
of a generation where women could get up on the podium for the first time, where the gates opened at last,” she told Le Point magazine in 2007. Ms. de Romilly was born Jac-
quelineDavid in Chartres, south- west of Paris, in 1913. After studies at the presti-
gious Ecole normale superieure and the Sorbonne, she began teaching in high schools in the 1930s. Because her father was Jewish, she was forced to stop teaching during World War II, when France’s Vichy regime col- laborated with the Nazi occupi- ers.
The scholar was married and
divorced from Michel Worms de Romilly, whose name she took. They had no children. After the war, she took up
teaching posts at the University of Lille and the Sorbonne before
JACK MARTIN SMITH
When God took you on February 27, 2002, He left avoid in my heart. Iwill never get used to losing
you.The void is still there.
DADDY,HAPPY BIRTHDAY Your loving daughter,Susie
joining the College de France in 1973. In her later years, Ms. de
Romilly defended the study of the classics and often spoke and wrote about the importance of education.
Brian Hanrahan BBC REPORTER, EDITOR
Brian Hanrahan, the British
Broadcasting Corp.’s former dip- lomatic editor, died of cancer at 61, the BBC reported. Mr. Hanrahan joined the
state-owned broadcaster in 1970 and reported for it from places including Hong Kong, Moscow and the Falkland Islands. One of his Falklands reports
during the 1982 war contained the line: “I’m not allowed to say howmany planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out and I counted them all back.” The dispatch became famous among journalists for the way it avoided military restrictions on report- ing losses of British aircraft. Mr. Hanrahan reported on
Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in Chi- na in the 1980s and was in Beijing in 1989 at the time of the Tiananmen Square protests. He also covered the assassination of Indira Gandhi in India in 1984 and the death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in a plane crash last April. He learned earlier this year
that he had cancer and was admitted to a hospital with an infection 10 days ago, the BBC said.
— FromNews Services
INMEMORIAM ALFONZIE B. REDDICK
REDDICK February 5, 1946 -December 20, 2010
It was ayear ago that your heavenly father call you home.I'm happy you're in abetter place now,worry free and pain free.Wemiss you and love you dearly.Wewill see you again. Love your son DeWayne Reddick &Family
SMITH JOSEPH WEBSTER BENTLEY
On Thursday,December 16, 2010. Beloved husband of the late Leona Lynch Bentley. Loving father of Michael Joseph, Sr.(Sheila Harrison), Charles Leland (Cheryl Bell), Elaina Bentley McFarlane (Anthony) and Edward Fran- cis (Johna Frison); eight grandchildren; one great-granddaughter and ahost of other loving relatives and
friends.Visitation will be held Wednesday,December 22 at the Church of St. Matthias the Apostle,9475 Annapolis Road, Lanham, MD 20706 at 10 a.m. until time of Service 11 a.m. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery,Brentwood,MD.
the Sport of Casting, Early Times” and “History of the Sport of Casting, Golden Years.” Clifford Leroy Netherton was
born on a farm in Ford County, Ill. He graduated from what is now Illinois State University in 1936. He taught in Illinois before moving to the Washington area and earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Illinois. DuringWorldWar II, he served in the Navy for two years. His first wife, Hazel Mahaffey
Netherton, died in 1965. Survi- vors include his wife of 43 years, Jean C. McIntyre Netherton of Great Falls.
—Emma Brown AloiseW. O’Neill
MONTGOMERY TEACHER Aloise W. O’Neill, 95, who
taught in Montgomery County elementary schools for about 20 years before retiring in 1978, died of renal failure Dec. 4 at Harmo- ny Hall assisted-living in Colum- bia.
Mrs. O’Neill, a fourth-genera-
tion teacher, retired from Jack- son Road Elementary School in Silver Spring. She also taught for many years atGlenmont Elemen- tary School inWheaton. Mary AloiseWardwas born in
Cameron, Mo. She taught in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Missouri before receiving a bach- elor’s degree in 1950 from Wil- liam Jewell College in Missouri. She moved to the Washington area in 1956 and did graduate work in education at the Univer- sity ofMaryland. In retirement, she and her
husband lived at Deep Creek Lake, in western Maryland, and later in Solomons in Calvert County. While at Deep Creek Lake, she helped create an orga- nization that grants low-income, terminally ill adults with a final wish. Her husband of 52 years, Leo
W. O’Neill Jr., died in 1999. Their son,L.WilliamO’Neill III, died in 2007. Survivors include a daughter,
Ann O’Neill of Silver Spring. —AdamBernstein
WALLACE KNAPPWATERFALL 24 January 1926 --- 21 December 2002
CONDOLENCE ROTHSTEIN
RALPH BURTON ROTHSTEIN
The Board of Directors,officers and staff of American Friends of TelAviv University mourn the passing of our dear friend, Ralph Rothstein.
Amember of the American Friends’ Board of Directors and the university’sBoard of Governors,hewas an exceptional sup- porter of TAUand its School of Dental
Medicine.Through the Bette and Ralph Rothstein Fund for Restorative Dentistry, his commitment will resonate well into the future.
Wewill miss his enthusiastic leadership and optimistic spirit, and extend our deepest sympathies to his wife,Bette,his children, Robin, Randy,Audrey,and Russell, and to the entire family.
William F. Cohen, Chairman
MEMORIAL SERVICE EDMOND PSALTIS
PSALTIS
AMemorial Service will be held on Tuesday,January 4, 2011 at 11 a.m. in the Inter-Faith Chapel in LeisureWorld
DEATHNOTICE BENTLEY
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2010
INMEMORIAM JAMEST. SMITH, SR.
SMITH April 11, 1897 -December 21, 1969
Rest In Peace,dear loving father,father-in-law, grandfather and great-grandfather.
Youare remembered and thought of always. Your Loving Family
WATERFALL
BICKERS MARGUERITE M. BICKERS
Born on December 8, 1919, she passed away at the age of 91 on December 19, 2010. Funeral services will be held at National Funeral Home 7482 Lee Highway,Falls Church, VA today, December 21 at 2p.m. Avisitation will take place from 1p.m. until time of
services.Inter- ment to follow in National Memorial Park.
BROOKS STEPHEN RUSSELL BROOKS (Age 61)
Of Fredericksburg,VA died at MaryWashington Hospital, Thursday,December 16, 2010. A graveside service will be conductedinQuanti- co National Cemetery Thursday,December.23 at 2p.m. Online condolences may be made at mullinsthompsonfredericksburg.
CHARLES BARBARA CASHELL CHARLES
On Sunday,December 19, 2010, BARBARA "Bobbie" C. CHARLES of Brookeville,MDat her
home.She was the daughter of the late Margaret "Dottie" Purcell and George Franklin Cashell. She was the wife of the late Joseph H.
Charles.She is survived by four children, Linda (Travis) Tomlinson, Richard (Deborah) Charles, Andrew (Carol) Charles and Nancy Stahler; acousin, Marjorie (Arnold) Prada and family and four grandchildren. Friends may visit on Wednesday,December 22 from 2to4p.m. and 6to8p.m. at the MURIEL H. BARBER FUNERAL HOME, 21525 Laytonsville Rd. (Rt. 108), Laytonsville,MD. Funeral services will be held on Thursday,December 23 at 11 a.m. at the Salem United Methodist Church, 12 High St., Brookeville,MD20833. Interment Mt. Carmel Cemetery,Sunshine,MD. In lieu of flowers those desiring may make memorial contributions to Salem United Methodist Church or charity of their choice.
COLEMAN
JAMES COLEMAN,JR.,USAF (Ret.) On December 10, 2010 ofWaldorf,
MD.Beloved father of Bernadine Duley (Bobby), Judith Coleman, Valerie Long (Vincent), Philip Cole-
man (Tama), Jordan Coleman (Emily). Also sur- vived by abrother,Bobbie Coleman; 16 grand- children and one great-grandchild. Relatives and friends may call New Life Church, 9690 Shepherds Creek Pl., La Plata, MD on Wednes- day,December 22 from 10 a.m. until time of
service.Interment to follow at Maryland Veterans Cemetery,Cheltenham,MD.
www.hunttfunerals.com
CORCORAN
CATHARINE H. CORCORAN (SALVAIL) Nurse
On December 2, 2010 at the Rockville Nursing Home at the age of 90. Born in Staunton,
VA.she was the last surviving member of the Hassett family of five brothers and one sister. Preceded in death by her first husband Dr. James M. Corcoran and her second husband Jack Salvail. Loving mother of James Edward, Silver Spring, MD,Joseph Michael, Exton, PA, James Patrick, Kansas City,MO, Kathleen Pagans,Fredericksburg, VA and Thomas Cor- coran, Bethesda,
MD.Also survived by seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mass of Christian Burial was held at the Church of the Annunciation in Washington, DC on December 9, 2010. Interment was at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.
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