immigration policy

DA Larry Krasner pursued reforms to protect immigrant defendants from ICE. Will they survive his re-election race?

Now these organizers are tackling the January runoffs for the U.S. Senate.

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 elected new sheriffs and DAs who’ve vowed to challenge mass incarceration and ICE, and they approved initiatives to curtail drug criminalization and expand voting rights.

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.

When people are arrested and booked into a local jail, they often end up on ICE’s radar. Sheriffs are a major reason why.

The agency is pursuing contracts with private detention providers to circumvent state and local efforts to curtail and regulate immigrant detention.

Gurbir Grewal terminated existing 287(g) contracts. But immigrants will continue to be treated differently.

Illinois prohibition against 287(g) contracts comes two years after California’s ban.

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.

“People showed up yesterday because they want their local communities to revolve [around] their values,” said a Maryland advocate.

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 […]

A sheriff challenger pledges to withdraw from ICE partnership Federal courts have repeatedly ruled against local officials who hold people in jail beyond their scheduled release based on ICE “detainer” requests. In January, ICE and 17 Florida sheriffs launched a new bid to circumvent those rulings; they announced a new sort of agreement, which they […]

Oregon’s 30-year-old ‘sanctuary’ law is under threat

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.

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