This week, the governor's office said that he remained opposed to the program.
In New York, a spokesman for Mr. Cuomo said he remained opposed to the program.
Those opposed to the program said they believed that it was a disservice to everyone involved.
But I am not sure that people who are opposed to the program necessarily understand what chaplains do in schools.
The ideological powers behind the current administration want to do away with Social Security -- not to offer retirees a better deal, but because they are opposed to the program in principle.
David Bishop, a legislator who sits on the budget and finance committee, said he was not opposed to the program but added that he and other legislators were not convinced that the sales tax should pay for it.
"This is yet another indication that the president would be ill-advised to pursue deployment of this system this summer," said Tom Z. Collina, director of the arms control and international security program for the Union of Concerned Scientists, a group opposed to the program.
They also vowed to help defend the policy against lawsuits from other states opposed to the program.
Prince Georges County has the second-highest rate nationwide of non-criminal deportations under Secure Communities, according to data from a coalition of groups opposed to the program.
Using a simple model controls for any differences that might arise as a result of system feedback as opposed to the programming.
