Immigration agents arrest 82 people in DC-area sweep

But there has been heightened scrutiny of such actions since the inauguration of President Trump, who promised to crack down on illegal immigration.

Cambridge and other local police agencies have anxious that federal crackdowns on undocumented immigrants will discourage immigrants from reporting crimes and cooperating with police.

Sheriff Bill Gore was not available for comment Wednesday.

But less than a week later, ICE besmirched Santa Barbara again.

Representatives of advocacy groups protested the participation by the sheriff’s office, saying among other allegations that those in jail aren’t necessarily “serious” criminals and that the action would create anxiety in the immigrant community – enough to perhaps avoid the county.

“Frustration at first because I knew it wasn’t true”, said Chody.

In Esperanza’s case, the bill would have prevented police from calling ICE after they conducted a traffic stop, and it would have meant the difference between raising her children and facing permanent separation from them. “It’s with the way this thing was rolled out”. That information is then posted to ICE for evaluation.

There is ample evidence that immigrants view such practices as a form of stalking that deters them from seeking justice for themselves or cooperating in the administration of justice for others.

ICE can issue a detainer to a county requesting that they hold a person who is already in custody to enable federal officials to detain them for deportation. “When his friend hears about his detention, why would he comply with ICE’s request to go and check in?”

For the attorney general to threaten local government to enforce laws that are the responsibility of federal law enforcement is an unconscionable act of illegal intimidation and should be ignored by local agencies. In 2007, almost 300 ICE agents, with help from Jones, raided Koch Foods Inc., a chicken processing plant in the city of Fairfield, and arrested 160 undocumented employees. “And I would say that the number in NYC is on par for past operations”.

“So now we’re looking for him”, Decker said.

As part of their effort to work with ICE, Kelly said there is an agent at the Ocean County Jail to review any potentially questionable paperwork.

Mostly, there’s “a lot of fear and uncertainty in terms of who they are targeting”. “It says on there who can serve it and it is not us”. But Brown argued that’s not even statistically possible.

But today, those who want to – and can – legalize their presence in the United States will likely be more afraid to come forward, Gomez said. “Things are different now”, Alpert said. “It can’t be accurate”. “It’s generated in Washington”, he explained. He went on to call the behavior of the Trump administration “typical of a totalitarian regime”. “There is a lot of data”, he said. That’s because they’re federal warrants and local sheriffs have no legal authority to execute them, he said.

“At the very least, it’s a public perception nightmare for sheriffs across the country”, he said. “It’s not an order”. It in no way bars your police officers from continuing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in enforcing immigration law when backed by judicial authority or otherwise properly mandated by federal law.

“Sheriffs have to follow the law”.

While sheriff’s officials stress their cooperation with ICE agents, immigration activists contend the relationship has been too cozy. She’s asked ICE about it and says she’s not gotten a response. It states: “Prosecutorial discretion shall not be exercised in a manner that exempts or excludes a specified class or category of aliens from enforcement of immigration laws”.

Gillman says the Orange County facility is particularly tough to reach by public transportation, making visits hard for the families of lower-income clients who don’t have cars. “The reality is it is the opposite”.