ICE banned from using contractors to arrest immigrants at California jails, prisons
2 years, 5 months ago

ICE banned from using contractors to arrest immigrants at California jails, prisons

LA Times  

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents transfer an immigrant after an early morning raid in Duarte. A California lawsuit has ended with a settlement that bans U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from leaning on private contractors to arrest immigrants at state prisons and jails and send them to deportation proceedings. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California arrived at a settlement with ICE in a joint lawsuit with the Asian Law Caucus alleging that immigration enforcement officers “routinely and systematically” directed third-party contractors to arrest immigrants at county jails and prisons. In its suit, filed in February 2021, the ACLU said that ICE has “willfully flouted” the law since at least 2016 and allowed private contractors hired through G4S Secure Solutions Inc. to make arrests without an ICE immigration officer present. The lawsuit alleged that private contractors were tapped to transfer immigrants from county jails and prisons at the same time California passed its “sanctuary state” law.

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As mass deportations loom, ICE eyeing new detention facility in California
1 month ago

As mass deportations loom, ICE eyeing new detention facility in California

LA Times  

Rob Bonta reminded public institutions last week of a state law limiting the cooperation of courthouses, hospitals, schools, universities and shelters with federal immigration enforcement efforts. As the incoming Trump administration promises the mass deportation of unauthorized immigrants, federal authorities are eyeing California for a new detention facility for migrant adults. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are looking for …

ICE is looking for a new detention center in Blue California. The state probably can’t stop it
1 month ago

ICE is looking for a new detention center in Blue California. The state probably can’t stop it

Associated Press  

Federal immigration authorities are looking for a potential new detention center in Northern California, an effort that alarms advocates and some Democratic state lawmakers as President-elect Donald Trump gears up to unleash his mass deportation plan. Unlike in Texas, where state officials are offering up land to the Trump administration to facilitate mass deportations, California tried to ban new federal …

Federal judge orders ICE to end ‘knock and talk’ arrests of immigrants in Southern California
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Federal judge orders ICE to end ‘knock and talk’ arrests of immigrants in Southern California

LA Times  

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents take an immigrant into custody. A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that a tactic used by federal immigration agents in Southern California to arrest people in their homes without a judicial warrant is unconstitutional and must end. U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II rejected ICE’s argument that its agents could enter …

California tried and failed to ban for-profit ICE detention centers. What does that mean for other states?
1 year, 6 months ago

California tried and failed to ban for-profit ICE detention centers. What does that mean for other states?

LA Times  

The GEO Group’s Adelanto ICE Processing Center is one of seven facilities in the state operated by private prison companies. California’s landmark ban on private prisons and immigrant detention facilities saw its fate sealed when a federal court officially repealed the 2020 law. The ruling affects a case in Washington state — which is in the 9th Circuit’s jurisdiction — …

California refers U.S. citizen prisoners to ICE based on racist assumptions, lawsuit says
1 year, 8 months ago

California refers U.S. citizen prisoners to ICE based on racist assumptions, lawsuit says

LA Times  

California prison officials are violating the rights of U.S. citizens and other lawful residents in state custody by referring them to federal immigration officials based solely on racist assumptions about their status in the country, according to a lawsuit filed this week by current and former prisoners and their advocates. The lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Alameda County, …

‘Slavery wages’ prompt hunger strike at ICE detention facilities
1 year, 10 months ago

‘Slavery wages’ prompt hunger strike at ICE detention facilities

Al Jazeera  

Participants say poor living conditions and wages of $1 a day have pushed them to launch the weeks-long protest. Los Angeles, California – “Until I drop.” That’s how long 22-year-old Cruz Martinez says he is committed to carrying out his hunger strike against the conditions at immigration detention centres in the United States. “Most of us believe this is our …

California settlement limits ICE from re-detaining immigrants freed because of COVID
2 years, 11 months ago

California settlement limits ICE from re-detaining immigrants freed because of COVID

LA Times  

Immigration authorities must preserve coronavirus safety measures that allow for social distancing and vaccination mandates for staff and detainees at two California detention facilities, according to a class-action lawsuit settlement reached Thursday. “When we filed this lawsuit, ICE had put our clients and communities at risk by detaining as many people as possible in filthy, crowded dorms and cells, creating …

ICE settles lawsuit filed by immigrant activists in Vermont
4 years, 2 months ago

ICE settles lawsuit filed by immigrant activists in Vermont

Associated Press  

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The federal government has agreed not to deport three immigrant activists in Vermont who sued two years ago after they were arrested, saying they were targeted in retaliation for their activism, according to the settlement filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Vermont. As part of the settlement in the lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement …

ICE is tracking immigrants with the help of California sanctuary cities, court records show
5 years, 9 months ago

ICE is tracking immigrants with the help of California sanctuary cities, court records show

LA Times  

An automated license plate reader is mounted on the back of an unmarked police car in Washington, D.C., in 2014. Civil rights groups in California want police and sheriff’s departments to stop sending license plate scanner information to a national private database, saying new public documents show federal immigration agents are using the system in breach of sanctuary state and …

California’s new ‘sanctuary’ battle could be keeping immigrant data away from ICE
5 years, 10 months ago

California’s new ‘sanctuary’ battle could be keeping immigrant data away from ICE

LA Times  

After California’s landmark “sanctuary state” law limited police from collaborating with federal immigration agents, one legislator wants to prevent local government from doing business with companies that he says play a role in the Trump administration’s “deportation machine.” Legislation introduced Friday by Assemblyman Rob Bonta would prohibit cities and counties across the state from entering into new contracts with any …

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