More public officials are breaking ties with ICE, as immigrants’ rights advocates double down on their case that local governments should avoid immigration enforcement regardless of Biden’s new policies.
Officials in a New Jersey county voted last week to renew a lucrative contract with ICE and continue detaining immigrants.
Massive data networks help ICE target immigrants, even in so-called sanctuary cities. Will the Biden administration and local officials shut them down?
Voters in populous Georgia and South Carolina counties elected sheriffs who ran on ending contracts with ICE.
In many places that have long helped arrest and detain immigrants, voters will decide the fate of local partnerships with ICE, possibly dealing a series of blows to the agency.
In Gwinnett and Cobb counties, sheriff candidates are promising to roll back cooperation with ICE. Advocates say they should cut ties completely, while the federal agency threatens retaliation.
This Massachusetts special election, which starts with next week’s Democratic primary, will shape criminal justice reform prospects in this county—and in state politics.
The agency is pursuing contracts with private detention providers to circumvent state and local efforts to curtail and regulate immigrant detention.
Ohio advocates are resisting proposals to expand the jail and local cooperation with ICE. In the primary on Tuesday, the sheriff and his challenger disagree on both fronts.
Gurbir Grewal terminated existing 287(g) contracts. But immigrants will continue to be treated differently.
“They’re trying to send Hispanics to Mexico or Honduras and put Black men in jail,” said one candidate regarding prevailing practices. “The United States is made for everybody.”
Illinois prohibition against 287(g) contracts comes two years after California’s ban.
Sheriff Patrick Russo faces no challengers. But the state legislature could act to restrict local cooperation with the federal agency.
A proposed bill would restrict the Colorado sheriffs’ ability to detain people for ICE and enter deals with the agency.
Bobby Kimbrough announces that he will no longer honor ICE detainer requests nor allow ICE to detain people in the county jail.
New Jersey attorney general limits local cooperation with ICE, postpones some decisions.
Los Angeles holds rare runoff for sheriff in a department rocked by scandals Daniel Nichanian Numerous scandals have hit the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department this year. In September, The Appeal reported about mounting allegations of abuse by the department’s deputies. In early October, the Los Angeles Times published an investigation into racial profiling that found that 69 percent of […]
3 Maryland counties are in ICE’s 287(g) program. How many after November?
Local officials wield great power over a county’s immigration policies. Many of their decisions escape widespread attention, but the organizing against ICE partnerships broke through in primaries this year, helping topple incumbent sheriffs in Milwaukee and in Charlotte. The scope of local immigration enforcement is now on the ballot in November. Below I profile 9 counties where the stakes […]
Wake County sheriff race struggles for media visibility, with 287(g) at stake
Will Orange County continue circumventing California’s ‘sanctuary state’ law?
This article is part of the Political Report’s coverage of criminal justice in the 2018 elections.
Bergen County sheriff resigns after racist remarks. What’s next in New Jersey?
Candidates disagree on the county’s cooperation with ICE and on the treatment of young defendants.
Election for Ulster County sheriff fought over over immigration, opoids.
Daniel Nichanian The Wisconsin counties that are cooperating closely with ICE have drawn protests from immigrants’ rights activists, but the issue is not resonating in the sheriff elections they are holding this year. In fact, Sheriff Eric Severson is running unopposed in Waukesha County (a populous and conservative county in the Milwaukee suburbs). In 2017, […]
ICE looms over Hennepin sheriff’s race.
Immigration enforcement at forefront of sheriff race in El Paso, Colorado