When most law enforcement agencies arrest someone, the Fourth Amendment sets guardrails to protect the impacted person’s constitutional right to liberty.
Immigrant families are still separated every day, and were long before the prior administration.
Since entering office, the Biden administration has nearly doubled the number of people locked in U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, extended existing contracts with private prison companies in some communities that have explicitly rejected ICE detention, started a contract to detain immigrant youth, and signed an agreement to open a new massive for-profit immigrant detention center.
During this Policy Corner presentation, policy experts from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) talk about the latest state-level laws and efforts to end detention, and give an update on the immigrant detention landscape at the federal level.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Over 60 members of Congress, led by Reps.
The U.S. criminal and immigration systems have long been entangled, creating a double punishment for immigrants through a pipeline from almost any involvement in the criminal legal system to immigration detention and deportation.
More than 18,500 Victims of ICE Holds Were Unlawfully Detained LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today approved settlement of a class action lawsuit brought by immigrants who were unlawfully detained by the L.A.
The detention system the U.S. government uses to lock up immigrants and refugees is intentionally difficult to understand.
Assumption of Risk: Legal Liabilities for Local Governments that Choose to Enforce Federal Immigration Laws , describes the legal liabilities local governments face when they honor ICE requests, known as “detainers,” to hold individuals past the completion of their criminal custody until immigration agents take them into administrative custody.
New Resource for Local Governments Seeking to Navigate Trump Rhetoric on ICE Detainers WASHINGTON, D.C. – Five leading immigrant and civil rights organizations issued a joint report today detailing the illegalities inherent in each of the U.S. government’s repeated attempts to enlist local law enforcement authorities to arrest and detain people on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)….
LOS ANGELES—On Thursday, a federal court in California ruled that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) unlawfully detained thousands of suspected immigrants on the basis of unconstitutional requests from ICE known as immigration detainers.
NIJC Director of Policy Heidi Altman and Associate Director of Litigation Mark Fleming discuss the current immigration landscape in D.C. and in the courts — including the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, the status of sanctuary cities, and the impact of the Illinois TRUST Act.
