Tag: Deportations
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Immigration Holds Plummet in First Year of Trust Act
By Jill Replogle California law enforcement officials have granted far fewer requests to hold detained immigrants for federal immigration authorities since the state’s Trust Act went into effect this year. The Trust Act limits the ability of local law enforcement to comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to hold immigrants longer than their scheduled…
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Immigrant Protection Law Passes State Senate
By Adrian Florido The California State Senate has passed Assembly Bill 4 – better known as the TRUST Act. If signed into law, the bill will protect many immigrants arrested for minor crimes in California from deportation. Specifically, the TRUST Act would prohibit local police and sheriffs from turning over many immigrants in their custody…
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TRUST Act Moving Toward Passage
By Adrian Florido One afternoon in late June, about a hundred people, mostly young Latinos, marched to Escondido Police Headquarters. They were kicking off a caravan to Sacramento. “We’re pushing for the governor to sign the TRUST Act this year, because it’s important,” Viviana Gonzalez, an activist and undocumented immigrant, told the crowd. “Communities like…
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SD Police Chief Endorses TRUST Act
By Adrian Florido San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne has endorsed the so-called TRUST Act, a state bill that would limit the ability of local police and sheriffs to cooperate with federal immigration agents. The TRUST Act addresses the federal Secure Communities Program. Under that program, immigration agents receive information about people arrested in nearly…
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Immigration ‘Holds’ by Police Decline
By Jill Replogle Newly-released data suggests Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be relying less on local law enforcement authorities to help them identify deportable immigrants. When an immigrant is booked into a local jail, ICE can request that law enforcement hold that person up to 48 hours past their normal release time until ICE has…