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Gwinnett deputies approved to enforce immigration law

ATLANTA - The Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department has been accepted into a federal program that allows local and state officials to enforce federal immigration laws.

The department is one of 11 law enforcement agencies nationwide whose acceptance into the Homeland Security Department program was announced Friday, bringing participating agencies nationwide to 77.

"As a group of Americans of all descriptions pursuing the full and equal application of American immigration law, we could not be more proud of our role in encouraging the expansion of immigration enforcement in Gwinnett," anti-illegal immigration activist D.A. King wrote in an e-mail Sunday in reaction to the announcement.

King is founder of the Dustin Inman Society, which seeks stricter laws against illegal immigration and is named for a Georgia teen killed in a car wreck caused by an illegal immigrant.

Lawyer Azadeh Shashahani, with the American Civil Liberties Union's Georgia chapter, said she hadn't seen the terms of the Gwinnett agreement but remains skeptical. She said she's concerned the program will lead to "rampant racial profiling."

"Unfortunately, until now, the federal government has shown little interest in ho

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