Trump Administration Moves to Expand Deportation Dragnet to Jails

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Trump Administration Moves to Expand Deportation Dragnet to Jails


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/us/sheriffs-immigration-jails.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-2&action=click&contentCollection=U.S.&region=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article


Caitlin Dickerson
10-12 minutes
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arresting a man in Riverside, Calif., in June. Melissa Lyttle for The New York Times

The Trump administration is working with like-minded sheriffs from around the country on a plan to channel undocumented immigrants from local jails into federal detention, according to several sheriffs involved in the discussions. If it succeeds, it could vastly expand the dragnet that has already begun to transform immigration enforcement in the United States.

The plan is intended to circumvent court decisions that have thus far limited the role of local law enforcement in immigration. It involves a legal move regarding detainers, which are requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to local sheriffs or police departments to hold people who are suspected of being in the country illegally, even after they have posted bail, finished their jail sentence or otherwise resolved their criminal cases.

A handful of sanctuary cities refuse to honor detainers on ideological grounds, but a larger number of sheriffs who otherwise support the Trump administration have also turned down detainers because courts have found that they violate the Fourth Amendment.
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The legal move, in which sheriffs would essentially serve as contractors for ICE, is intended to protect sheriffs from such court battles, which have sometimes resulted in costly payouts. Some legal advocates for immigrants, though, expressed doubt that courts would view it as being different from current practices.

The tactic would be a major step toward marrying local and federal law enforcement, a centerpiece of Mr. Trump’s plan to thwart illegal immigration and one that immigrant advocates have scrambled to block at every opportunity. If enough sheriffs participated, the approach could lead to many more immigration arrests, which have already risen more than 40 percent since last year.
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[Warpy]

1. ICE has been booted from the courthouse and local pokey

They have to skulk around outside now. They look like a bunch of creepers, hitting on anybody they think looks like a brown felon. A lot of the local Indians are getting harassed after they're released after a bender, not good.

I don't suppose anyone has bothered to mention to him the number of undocumented snowbird Canadians who have overstayed tourist visas year after year in AZ.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. I am waiting for the news about privatized -for profit detention centers to come out.

Remember reading about them a couple of years ago.