Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls on Gov. Brown to Sign TRUST Act
Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Moral Obligation to Sign the TRUST Act
Dissecting John Morton’s Sympathy Letter to a Hate Group
John Morton’s Sympathy Letter to Hate Group
Legal Scholars Endorse California TRUST Act
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Cost of Responding to Immigration Detainers in California
The Cost of Responding to Immigration Detainers in California
Washington, DC: Immigration Fact Sheet
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‘Se Communities” is a national immigration enforcement program that targets noncitizens who are arrested by the police. On June 5, 2012, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “switched on” the program in the District of Columbia.
In response, the Mayor and the District of Columbia passed laws and policies to limit ICE’s cooperation with District of Columbia law enforcement agencies, such as the DC Metropolitan Police or the Department of Corrections. These laws and policies will protect DC residents from aggressive immigration enforcement and ensure that District local law enforcement agencies focus on public safety, not federal immigration enforcement.
How do these policies protect you?
California TRUST Act with Amendments
Existing federal law authorizes any authorized immigration officer to issue an immigration detainer that serves to advise another law enforcement agency that the federal department seeks custody of an alien presently in the custody of that agency, for the purpose of arresting and removing the alien. Existing federal law provides that the detainer is a request that the agency advise the department, prior to release of the alien, in order for the department to arrange to assume custody, in situations when gaining immediate physical custody is either impracticable or impossible.
This bill would prohibit a law enforcement official, as defined, from detaining an individual on the basis of a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold after that individual becomes eligible for release from criminal custody, unless the local agency adopts a plan that meets certain requirements prior to or after compliance with the immigration hold, and, at the time that the individual becomes eligible for release from criminal custody, certain conditions are met.