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    Federal judge stops I.C.E. from issuing ‘detainers’

    Federal judge stops immigration authorities from issuing ‘detainers’

    By Melissa Sanchez | 7 hours ago

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    A federal judge has ordered immigration authorities to stop issuing so-called "detainers" asking local law enforcement agencies to hold immigrants in custody for an additional 48 hours. The ruling would apply to Illinois and five neighboring states. (File photo from a November 2013 immigration rally in downtown Chicago.)

    A federal judge in Chicago has ordered immigration authorities in Illinois and five neighboring states to stop asking local law enforcement agencies to detain suspects who may be in the country illegally.

    The order, signed Friday by U.S. District Judge John Z. Lee, would void thousands of so-called “detainers” sent annually to state, county and municipal jail and police officials requesting that they keep suspects in custody for 48 hours after their local cases play out—giving immigration agents time to pick them up. Detainers are one of the major tools used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to identify individuals to deport in the interior of the country.


    The ruling won’t go into effect immediately;
    the federal government has until Thursday to notify the court if it will seek a stay pending appeal.


    The decision comes as immigration has become a key issue in this year’s presidential elections, with Republican candidate Donald Trump promising to build a wall along the Mexican border and condemning so-called “sanctuary” cities and counties — like Chicago and Cook — that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.


    Earlier this summer immigrant rights groups lobbied Chicago’s City Council to amend an existing ordinance to further bar police officers from cooperating with ICE agents. But much of that language was stripped from the proposed amendments after city officials raised concerns about losing federal funding.

    On Wednesday the City Council is expected to vote for the pared-down proposals, which would prevent police officers and other city employees from using coercive or threatening language against immigrants.


    A spokeswoman for the ICE field office in Chicago said the agency is reviewing the ruling, which would apply to Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Missouri and Wisconsin. Between fiscal year 2014 and the first two months of fiscal year 2016, ICE issued 9,413 detainers in those six states, according to data from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.


    Mark Fleming of the National Immigrant Justice Center and co-counsel in the case, called the ruling an important victory. “It sets a precedent, finally, that ICE needs to recognize that their warrantless arrest authority is limited,” he said.

    “Under most circumstances, if they are going to seek the arrest of somebody, they need to get a warrant just like every other law enforcement agency would need to.”


    The federal order does not address the constitutionality of ICE detainers. Instead in his opinion Lee wrote that the immigration agency overreached its authority by issuing detainers rather than seeking judicial warrants or showing that individuals were likely to escape before a warrant could be obtained.


    The class-action case was filed by Jose Jimenez Moreno, a U.S. citizen who was in a Winnebago County, Ill., jail when ICE agents issued an immigration detainer against him in 2011, and by Maria Jose Lopez, a lawful permanent resident who was serving a federal sentence in Florida that same year when a detainer was placed on her.


    In recent years, ICE has drastically reduced its use of detainers — from nearly 30,000 per month in 2010 to fewer than 10,000 per month last fall, according to TRAC data — in order to prioritize undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes.


    In the 2015 fiscal year, ICE issued more than 95,000 detainers to local law enforcement agencies. In nearly half of those cases, the detainers pertained to individuals who hadn’t been convicted of any crime.


    Data obtained through public records requests by National Public Radio and shared with The Chicago Reporter show that ICE issued more detainer requests to Cook County Jail in 2014 than any other law enforcement agency in the state. Cook County officials don’t honor these requests, however, unless there is a warrant.


    The Statesville Correctional Center, a state prison in Crest Hill, Ill., receives the second-highest number of detainer requests, followed by the jails in DuPage, Kane, Lake and McHenry counties.

    http://chicagoreporter.com/federal-j...ing-detainers/

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    I think he probably should have recused himself, he appears to be biased toward illegals. JMO

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    PRESIDENT OBAMA NOMINATES JOHN Z. LEE TO FEDERAL JUDGESHIP





    This week, President Obama nominated John Z. Lee, a partner at the law firm of Freeborn & Peters LLP in Chicago, to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois: John Tharp, John Lee tapped for Chicago federal judgeships.

    If confirmed, Mr. Lee would be only the second Asian Pacific American to serve as an Article III judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He would also become only the second Korean American in the history of the United States to serve as a federal district court judge.

    Mr. Lee is the son of a coal miner and a nurse, and immigrated to the United States when he was only five years old. He is currently a partner with Freeborn & Peters, where he litigates complex commercial cases in diverse areas of the law. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Lee represented the federal government in environmental litigation nationwide at the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has been recognized by numerous organizations and publications for his work, including: "40 Attorneys Under 40 in Illinois to Watch," Chicago Daily Law Bulletin (2004); "Leading Lawyer" in Commercial Litigation and Class Action/Mass Tort Defense, Leading Lawyers Network (2008, 2009, 2010). He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and cum laude from Harvard Law School.

    Throughout his career he has been very active in serving the community, particularly in providing legal services to those in need. He is the President of the Board of Directors for the Coordinated Advice and Referral Program for Legal Services ("CARPLS"), a co-founder of the Willow Creek Legal Aid Clinic in Hoffman Estates (a joint program between CARPLS and Willow Creek Church), and the President of the Board of Directors of Asian Human Services.


    http://blog.angryasianman.com/2011/1...-z-lee-to.html



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