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    Thousands of Illegal Aliens Released by Local Jails After Immigration Holds Denied

    Thousands Released After Immigration Holds Denied

    SANTA ANA, Calif. — Oct 17, 2014, 3:45 PM ET
    By AMY TAXIN Associated Press


    Immigration officials say local authorities across the U.S. released thousands of immigrants from jails this year despite efforts to take them into federal custody, including more than 3,000 with previous felony charges or convictions.


    The numbers are the first time federal immigration authorities have publicly detailed how many times local agencies have refused to comply with their requests. They highlight the friction between the federal government and police and sheriff's departments, some of which say holding immigrants beyond their release dates harms community policing efforts.


    In the first eight months of this year, immigration agents filed roughly 105,000
    requests for local agencies to hold immigrants for up to 48 hours after they were eligible for release on the allegations for which they initially were arrested, said Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The agents wanted the immigrants held so they could take them into federal custody and start deportation proceedings.


    Local law enforcement agencies declined 8,800 such requests, also known as detainers,
    during the same period. Those released include people arrested for investigation of domestic violence and drug charges, as well as others detained on lesser offenses but who had past convictions for crimes such as assault with a deadly weapon, Kice said.


    Across the country, many local agencies no longer are willing to hold jailed immigrants beyond their scheduled release dates. They say immigrants should not be held longer than U.S citizens for the same crime, and turning them over to ICE creates an atmosphere of distrust among community members.


    Colorado stopped honoring detainers earlier this year, and New York City is considering doing the same.


    In California, local law enforcement agencies scaled back their collaboration with ICE to comply with a state law that took effect this year limiting the use of immigration detainers. After a federal court in nearby Oregon ruled a woman's constitutional rights were violated when she was held in jail without probable cause, some agencies stopped honoring the requests altogether.


    Immigration officials say the denials pose a public safety threat as immigrants who previously would have been placed in federal custody once they were eligible to leave jail are being released into communities where they can commit new crimes.


    David Marin, deputy field office director for the agency's enforcement and removal operations in the greater Los Angeles area said he's shifted at least 40 agents from screening and transporting arrestees to teams working in the field to track down immigrants they believe are in the country illegally.


    It takes more manpower to do so and puts his staff at greater risk, Marin said. And he believes some of the immigrants who are being released will commit new crimes, adding that his agency has filed multiple detainers this year for some immigrants, which indicates they have been re-arrested.


    "There's a lot of crimes we could probably prevent if people would just honor our detainers," Marin said. He noted that because of a prison overhaul, local jails in California now house more lower-level felons who previously would have gone to state prison.


    In Illinois, a man who was released from jail despite a 2011 request by immigration authorities to detain him shot and killed his 15-year-old girlfriend earlier this year, Kice said.


    Some California sheriff's officials, however, say they're simply following the latest law governing the conditions under which anyone, an immigrant or otherwise, can be held by law enforcement.


    In Riverside County, Chief Deputy Jerry Gutierrez said the Oregon ruling coupled with an ICE memo indicating the detainers were requests, not requirements, prompted his agency to stop honoring them.


    "If we were to honor them, it would expose the county and the department to civil liability," he said. "Any person who is ordered to be released, we would be releasing them the same way."


    In San Bernardino County, deputy Ruben Perez said his department has reported no problem with repeat offenders but it might be too soon to tell.

    The change is welcomed by immigrant advocates, who have long fought the requests from immigration authorities to continue detaining people after they're eligible for release from jail, whether on bail or at the conclusion of a criminal case.

    They say immigrants in communities that honored ICE's requests have been afraid to report crimes, and the policy change will improve, not hamper, public safety.


    Chris Newman, legal director at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said deportation should not be used as a form of punishment.


    "There has been an insidious erosion of constitutional rights protections," he said. "Immigrants and citizens should be treated alike by our criminal justice system."

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/t...enied-26278788

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    Activists: Immigration Enforcement Shifting to Philly Suburbs

    Federal activity declines in Philadelphia since city ended cooperation.

    BY JOEL MATHIS |
    OCTOBER 16, 2014 AT 10:59 AM

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    Immigration authorities have moved the bulk of their enforcement activities to the suburbs since Mayor Nutter ended cooperation with the feds during the spring, an immigrant-rights group reports.

    “In some counties ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) meets with the district attorney twice per week,” said Jasmine Rivera, lead organizer for Juntos, a Philadelphia immigrant-rights organization.

    “In Chester county the juvenile court system reports all undocumented juveniles to ICE. Driver’s license check-points are used to identify undocumented immigrants.

    And we have noticed an increase of arrests in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where there are no ICE hold policies”

    Her comments came in a new report by the National Day Labor Organizing Network, which is behind a campaign to end deportations of foreign nationals — even so-called “undocumented immigrants — from American soil.

    Under a previous agreement with ICE, Philadelphia Police held undocumented immigrants it had arrested until ICE could detain them for deportation proceedings. The city's new policy, formally adopted in April, ends that cooperation — except for immigrants with first- or second-degree felonies, and then only when federal officials have a warrant from a judge.


    Since then, Juntos activists say, federal authorities have changed tactics, and largely moved out of Philadelphia.


    "There's been a shift," said Erika Almiron, the executive director of Juntos. "We haven't seen much of the issue of ICE holds."


    Instead of relying on local police, the NDLON report says, ICE authorities have increasingly used its own "targeted enforcement" actions — raids by another, friendlier name — aimed at individuals thought to represent a threat to the community. Those raids often end up catching undocumented immigrants who share a house the person targeted.


    Juntos said such raids are on the rise in Philadelphia, but its members were unable to quanitify just how many had taken place in the region in recent years.


    Juntos' leaders aren't terribly concerned that such folks are in the United States illegally. They say undocumented immigrants have contributed to the well-being of communities on this side of the border — sometimes for decades at a time — all while living in fear of arrest and deportation.


    "Our work ...is for the survival of our people, so they can live dignified lives," Almiron said. "Our families are strong and they're going to keep on fighting until this kind of persecution stops."


    Calls to ICE's Philadelphia headquarters went unanswered this morning. Juntos is holding a press conference at 3 this afternoon to feature families it says have been affected by the changing tactics.


    Read more at http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/1...uwkWRZjiD3O.99
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    “In Chester county the juvenile court system reports all undocumented juveniles to ICE.
    Good to see this juvenile court reporting the illegal aliens to I.C.E.

    We need to get ALL juvenile courts to report to I.C.E.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    Chris Newman, legal director at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said deportation should not be used as a form of punishment.

    "There has been an insidious erosion of constitutional rights protections," he said. "Immigrants and citizens should be treated alike by our criminal justice system."

    I couldn't agree more. When we catch criminals, they should be dealt with. Illegal aliens, for example, should be deported - unless they've commited other crimes, in which case they should be incarcerated and then deported.
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