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Minnesota's largest jail stops honoring immigration holds

Posted: Jun 11, 2014 8:26 AM PDT
Updated: Jun 11, 2014 8:56 AM PDT
by Mike Durkin - email

Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek announces an end to ICE detainers at his jail. Photo by Rod Wermager / Fox 9 News.

Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said his office will no longer honor inmate “holds” requested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE detainers are requests for local jails to hold inmates up to 48 hours after they are eligible for release so they can be considered for deportation.

ICE detainers in the past have been interpreted by local law enforcement as mandatory, but multiple federal court rulings have clearly stated ICE requests are simply requests, not orders. The confusion comes from the language of the detainer request, which states the local agency "shall maintain custody of an alien."

An information sharing partnership between ICE, the FBI and local law enforcement allows immigration officials to monitor jail bookings. Of the 36,000 inmates received by the Hennepin County Jail each year, approximately 1.5 percent have ICE detainers.

Immigrant rights advocates argue ICE detainers have kept innocent U.S. citizens in jail for several days, sometimes without probable cause. Local law enforcement agencies may even be held liable for holding inmates beyond their eligible release date.

"They do it in a dragnet manner without first doing the investigation upfront, sometimes before a local district attorney has even signed off on the charges,” Kate Desormeau, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, said after an Oregon federal court ruling in April. “So it results in the unjust incarceration of a lot of people who are not deportable at all, or who are not found guilty in the criminal process.”

Stanek’s decision was made in consultation with the county attorney, the ACLU, local and national elected officials, the sheriff’s advisory board and Hennepin County residents. Hennepin County will stop honoring ICE detainers on June 12.

http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/story...igration-holds

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3 Kansas counties limit holds on ICE detainees

By theassociatedpressPublished: June 10, 2014, 1:12 pm

Jail Bars (KSN File Photo)

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Three Kansas counties say they’ll stop automatically honoring requests from federal immigration officials to detain people without a warrant or probable cause.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas says sheriff’s departments in Shawnee, Johnson and Finney counties say they’ll require probable cause or a warrant to hold ICE detainees beyond their release date.

The move comes after recent court decisions in Oregon and Pennsylvania found that such ICE detainer requests are not commands that local jurisdictions have to honor. The courts found sheriffs could be liable for constitutional violations for holding people past the time when they would otherwise be released.

The ACLU says it recently sent letters to county sheriffs across Kansas explaining the constitutional risks associated with honoring the warrantless detention requests.

http://ksn.com/2014/06/10/3-kansas-c...ice-detainees/

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http://www.alipac.us/f12/new-mexico-...-holds-304962/

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