By relying on the controversial program Secure Communities, which requires local police to submit to federal officials the fingerprints of anyone they arrest who they suspect is in the country illegally, his administration roped local police into the enforcement of federal immigration law over the objections of prominent Democrats such as Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Malloy's administration says it backs the state police commander who discussed the Newtown school shootings at a lawenforcement seminar and won't punish him.
The Portuguese administration says it has now done much to improve the efficiency of its lawenforcement: streamlining the police force, rooting out corrupt officials and arresting the five main triad heads in Macau.