Latino advocates to protest Obama in Miami and 9 other U.S. cities

Obama is also under fire for his support of Secure Communities, a program that allows federal authorities to screen fingerprints of those arrested by local police in order to detect undocumented immigrants. Critics say the program nets large numbers of non-criminal undocumented immigrants and takes focus away from the primary targets of immigration enforcement, violent offenders.

On Tuesday, activists in 10 U.S. cities, including in Miami, will hold a National Day of Action called “Obama, Immigration and the Latino Community."

The Latino community leaders are choosing that date because of a PBS Frontline program scheduled to air Tuesday night called Lost In Detention.

Roberto Lovato is with the group Presente.org, the lead organization behind Tuesday's actions.

“The issues of immigrant and Latino imprisonment that are exposed in ‘Lost in Detention’ will surely be a major concern in the upcoming elections. Latino families throughout the United States are deeply concerned with such reports because they expose the extremism that lies at the heart of President Obama’s SCOMM program, detention policies and other immigration policies. Since signaling a new course in our immigration policy a few weeks ago, President Obama has continued his aggressive persecution, jailing, and deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who he has labeled ‘criminals’ and whose lives are being destroyed through traffic violations and similar minor infractions

The event in South Florida will take place at Tubas Restaurant 1062 W Sample Rd Pompano Beach.