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DHS immigration and border memos aim to tighten asylum, unaccompanied minor policies

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The Department of Homeland Security is set to release guidance on President Donald Trump's immigration and border security executive orders that has sweeping implications for undocumented immigrants in the United States and those seeking to enter in the future.

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ice is pretty new. but roots of #abolishice run deep.     - cnnpolitics

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ICE is pretty new. But the roots of the #AbolishICE campaign run deep.

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The speed with which the progressive push to "Abolish ICE" moved from activist circles to the national political stage has Democratic leaders scrambling to craft a coherent message, consider their tactics and, in some cases, simply figure out where they stand.

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While an increasing number of cities declare themselves safe zones for illegal immigrants, a sheriff in Arizona is bucking the trend by openly working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.

"I'm not for sanctuary cities," said Pinal County Sheriff Paul Lamb. "That's pretty much it in a nutshell."

Pinal County, south of Phoenix, is the size of Connecticut. Its 450,000 residents are an ethnic mix - black, white, Hispanic and Native Americans.
SESSIONS TAKES AIM AT 'DANGEROUS' SANCTUARY CITIES, WARNS ON FUNDING
Lamb took office in January and instituted a cooperative program so his jail deputies are cross trained as ICE agents, allowing them to question and immediately determine an inmate's immigration status. In practice, it allows for a seamless transition of criminal aliens from the Pima County courthouse or jail to ICE custody for deportation.

"Ultimately their goal is the same as ours - public safety," said David Marin, an ICE director in Los Angeles. "Those sheriffs and law enforcement agencies realize that by turning over these criminal aliens to us they're not going to be able to go out and commit additional crimes."

Currently Pinal County has four jail deputies trained in the ICE 287g program, which allows local police to enforce immigration laws. The Trump administration hopes to expand the program to as many cities as possible.

"My job is to keep the people of Pinal County safe," said Lamb. "The 287g program allows me to make sure I'm not putting criminals back in the community."
MAYORS OF SANCTUARY CITIES SHOULD BE THROWN IN JAIL
As trained ICE agents, the deputies are able to tap into Department of Homeland Security computers and determine an inmates' legal status. And unlike sanctuary jurisdictions, the county honors ICE warrants and detainers and will give ICE a call when an inmate is preparing to leave.

"This county cares about illegal immigration and it's my job to make sure that we work with our federal partners to uphold the law," Lamb said.

That includes the Border Patrol, which works closely with the county's anti-smuggling unit.

"They back us up and we help them," said Deputy Eddie Joseph.

Behind the wheel of an unmarked, black Dodge pickup, Joseph patrols Interstate 8 and 10, both of which cross east-west across Pinal County.

He watches a battered blue SUV suspiciously go up and down a desert road twice in 30 minutes. The behavior mirrors that of smugglers who are looking to pick up illegals hiding in the bushes along the road.

It's a seven-day walk from the U.S. Mexican border about 80 miles away. Yet, piles of discarded clothes, water bottles and burlap sacks used to carry marijuana litter the desert in popular spots near the highways.

"We see a lot of drug and human smuggling" Joseph said. "You can see here the foot tracks in the sand. They're probably a few days old."

The Trump Administration sees local law enforcement as a front line in its battle against illegal immigration, at the border and in the interior. They do not expect to turn local cops into immigration agents. But once an immigrant is booked into jail, for any offense, they become fair game.

The administration argues it is the federal government's prerogative - not a local mayor or city council - to decide who gets deported and who does not.

"It's a slippery slope, when you get into that," Lamb argued. "You can't start determining this person meets a criteria and this one doesn't. The bottom line is, it's illegal (to be here). If someone is illegal, it's against the law and my job to uphold the law."

Marin wished more local law enforcement shared his attitude.

"It's troubling for us because here's a criminal alien, somebody that we can use our unique authorities to not only remove them from the community," he said, "but ultimately remove them from the country and again there's law enforcement agencies that are just letting them go."

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The anti-sanctuary city: Arizona county bucks national trend

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While an increasing number of cities declare themselves safe zones for illegal immigrants, the sheriff in Pinal County, Arizona is bucking the trend by openly working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.

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Berks community leaders urge commissioners to reject immigration plan: EBSCOhost

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The police director for the city of Newark is ordering his officers to refuse federal immigration officials' requests that they detain suspected undocumented immigrants accused of minor crimes.

In California, the legislature is considering a measure that would call for local law enforcement agencies not to hold immigrants held on minor offenses so that immigration authorities can pick them up. The bill allows local police to hold only the most serious criminals for immigration authorities.

And in New Orleans, the sheriff no longer will honor federal immigration requests to hold immigrants, except those who are held in the jail for certain felonies.

But in Knox County, Tenn., Sheriff Jimmy Jones is going against the tide, demanding more immigration enforcement and fighting for federal authorities and local police agencies to work closer together.

Jones, whose application the federal government denied for a program that would have established a joint effort to detain and deport undocumented immigrants, vowed to continue an aggressive approach to illegal immigration, reported WATE-TV 6 in Knoxville, an ABC News affiliate.

The disparate actions of law enforcement officials around the country underscore the conflicting views among police and local officials over the concept of enforcing immigration at the local level.

Advocates of keeping immigration enforcement and local policing separate say it hurts public safety when communities see their police as quasi-immigration agents. Immigration enforcement, they say, is a federal responsibility.

"With this policy in place, Newark residents will not have to fear that something like a wrongful arrest for a minor offense will lead to deportation," said Udi Ofer, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, according to The Star Ledger. "It ensures that if you're a victim of a crime, or have witnessed a crime, you can contact the police without having to fear deportation."

The ACLU and immigrants rights groups worked with city officials to develop Newark's new policy.

Immigration officials have several programs in which they work with local law enforcement agencies to identify deportable immigrants. But various of those programs, particularly Secure Communities and 287g, are controversial.

Immigration officials say they are important to finding and deporting immigrants who are dangerous, who have engaged in serious crimes. But critics say such programs often end up ensnaring a large number of people who have been stopped by police for such things as traffic violations or disorderly persons offenses.

"If we arrest somebody for a disorderly persons offense and we get a detainer request were not going to hold them in our cell block," said Newark Police Director Samuel DeMairo, according to The Star Ledger.

Some police critics of programs such as Secure Communities - in which fingerprints of suspects in custody at local jails are checked against Homeland Security database - say that they add to their workload and make immigrants who witness, or are victims of, a crime afraid to report it.

In the program 287G, local police authorities who enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security may arrest and detain undocumented immigrants and begin deportation proceedings.

The arguments for and against 287G are similar to those regarding Secure Communities.

The New Orleans policy arose from a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by two men who were detained for several months in Orleans Parish Prison after they had served brief sentences for minor offenses.

The Justice Department, which was investigating the Orleans Parish Prison during the lawsuit, found a shoddy system of tracking immigration detention requests and an inability of staff at the jail to communicate with Spanish-speaking detainees.

The new policy calls for the New Orleans sheriff's office to refuse requests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain a person except when a felony is involved, according to The New York Times.

In New Jersey, Newark's decision not to work with federal immigration authorities quickly became an issue in the Senate race, where Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat, is running against Steve Lonegan, a Republican with a reputation in the state for hard line view on immigration.

"We're sending a signal," Lonegan said about Newark's policy, according to The Star Ledger. "You can come to the country illegally, you can shoplift, you can vandalize, but it's all right. We're going to make sure you're safe."

Knox County Sheriff Jimmy Jones, meanwhile, said that Homeland Security's decision not to admit his department into the 287g program is not going to stop him from cracking down on undocumented immigrants.

"I will continue to enforce these federal immigration violations with or without the help of [immigration officials]," he said in a public statement, according to WATE-TV 6.. "If need be, I will stack these violators like cordwood in the Knox County Jail until the appropriate federal agency responds."
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Local Cops Divided Over Continuing To Help Federal Immigration Agents

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After years of increased cooperation, some local authorities no longer see a benefit in enforcing immigration laws.

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A South Carolina state police unit that will enforce immigration laws under the guidelines of the controversial federal program known as "287g" will not be active until training takes place, says the state public safety chief.

That may not come for at least a year, he said, drawing complaints from a state senator who helped push through the measure creating the unit.

Interim Department of Public Safety director Col. F. K. Lancaster Jr. told The Associated Press that the agency is waiting to hear from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about undergoing its four-week 287g training. It effectively deputizes local law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws on the streets and in jails.

"That may take a year, year-and-a-half to hear back," Lancaster said. "We have to wait on the 287g training before we can even start the unit. ... Once they give us the approval for training, we'll get the unit started at that point."

Legislators gave his agency $1.3 million this fiscal year specifically for the unit. Its creation -- complete with distinctive uniforms, badges and vehicles -- is required under a new state law, signed by Gov. Nikki Haley in June.

Effective Jan. 1, all law enforcement officers are required to call federal immigration officials -- or the state unit, once it's certified -- if they suspect someone is in the country illegally. The question must follow an arrest or traffic stop for something else. The measure bars officers from holding someone solely on that suspicion. Opponents railed against the measure as encouraging racial profiling, and a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union is expected.

The new state unit will have 10 officers, a supervisor and an administrative assistant. A job description for the supervisor is approved, but the job isn't posted for applications yet, Lancaster said a month into his new role.

His former boss, Mark Keel, signed a letter dated June 30 to ICE's director, requesting the training, shortly before transferring to his new job as the chief of the State Law Enforcement Division.

Lancaster said Keel also applied for the new unit to undergo a separate, two-day federal class that provides general information on the process, but gives no enforcing ability.

Officers will be hired for the unit from within the agency, and can get a jump-start with the informational training, but then will return to their regular duties until the 287g training is approved, Lancaster said.

"We're just doing the Title 19 training to get ahead of the game. It doesn't give them anything," he said.

ICE currently has partner agreements with 69 law enforcement agencies in 24 states, including four in South Carolina, with the sheriff's departments in Beaufort, Charleston, Lexington and York counties. Since 2006, the program has certified more than 1,240 officers to enforce immigration law. Next week, 23 officers from seven states -- including one from Lexington County -- will start the training at the ICE academy in Charleston, according to the agency.

Horry County Sheriff Phillip Thompson said his agency applied for the training 18 months ago. He said he was told in January the paperwork was sitting on the director's desk in Washington, awaiting a decision, and he's heard nothing new since.

"We're patiently waiting," Thompson said.

Sen. Larry Martin said waiting on the federal government for the state unit is unacceptable.

"I would be very disappointed if ... we're not going to create the agency until the federal government is ready to cooperate. I don't know that they'll ever be willing to cooperate," said Martin, R-Pickens. "I don't think there's any reason to wait. If we sit around and wait on the federal government, we may wait forever."

While awaiting the training, Martin said, the unit could still contact federal immigration officials if they suspect someone is in the country illegally just as local agencies do.

"Is it better to have 287g training? Sure. It's preferable to have that certification to interact in an efficient way. You don't get the response as quickly, but it's not mandatory," Martin said.

And he believes the unit could go ahead and educate local law enforcement on how to legally comply with the new law.

"This is what you do without crossing a line, to talk through scenarios of a lawful law enforcement stop. ... Just because people look different, you can't stop and ask them for their identification," Martin said. "Those types of discussions and understandings are a major thrust of this agency."

But Lancaster said the training is precisely what the unit needs to be able to do that.

Andre Segura, an ACLU attorney in New York, agreed with Lancaster's interpretation of the law, noting its last paragraph specifies that the portion concerning the new unit takes effect upon the Department of Public Safety getting 287g authority. Regardless, he said, his group believes the law is unconstitutional and vows to sue before the rest of it is set to take effect.
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South Carolina Immigration Unit on Hold; Some Legislators Want it Now

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South Carolina's public safety chief says training in the controversial 287g program must take place before the immigration enforcement unit can be activated.

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Overview Divisions and Field Offices MissionTo identify, arrest, and remove aliens who present a danger to national security or are a risk to public safety, as well as those who enter the United