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.
3 Maryland counties are in ICE’s 287(g) program. How many after November?
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.
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