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Justice Strategies New Report: Local Democracy on ICE: Why State and Local Governments Have No Business in Federal Immigration Law Enforcement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New Report from Justice Strategies (Feb 2009) Local Democracy on ICE: Why State and Local Governments Have No Business in Federal Immigration Law Enforcement Democracy on ICE 287(g) is a tiny provision in federal immigration law that allows Homeland Security?s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to take local police away from their mission of fighting crime, and pull them into the murky territory of targeting immigrants for arrest without suspicion of crime. ICE described the 287(g) program as a public safety measure to target ?criminal illegal aliens,? but its largest impact has been on law-abiding immigrant communities. Rather than focusing on serious crime, police resources are spent targeting day-laborers, corn-vendors and people with broken tail-lights...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).