{"id":7830,"date":"2018-01-05T19:03:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2018-01-05T19:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:03:06","slug":"aclu-texas-demands-info-on-county-agreements-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=7830","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Texas Demands Info on County Agreements with ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The ACLU of Texas wants details from some county sheriffs about their agreements to allow local deputies to act as federal immigration officers. Photo: Kaybe70\/GettyImages<\/p><\/div>\n

by Mark Richardson<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

HOUSTON \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0The American Civil Liberties Union is\u00a0confronting a number of Texas counties<\/a>\u00a0that have entered into law-enforcement agreements with federal immigration officials.<\/p>\n

The ACLU of Texas has filed Public Information Act requests with seven county sheriffs\u2019 offices, asking for details of their 287(g) agreements made with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.<\/p>\n

Astrid Dominguez, a policy strategist with the ACLU of Texas, says the agreements empower local officers to act as immigration agents on behalf of the federal agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 287(g) program is an agreement that the sheriff\u2019s department enters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deputize sheriffs\u2019 deputies as ICE agents,\u201d she explains. \u201cSo, our sheriffs are going to be doing ICE\u2019s job at the jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says the program goes beyond Secure Communities agreements, in which local sheriffs notify ICE when undocumented people in jail are scheduled for release. The Obama Administration halted that program in 2014, but it was revived by President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The request seeks 287(g) records from Burnet, Kendall, Nueces, Potter, Rockwall, Terrell and Williamson counties.<\/p>\n

Dominguez contends the program drains critical funds from local law-enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re diverting resources from our deputies\u2019 mission, which is to protect and serve our communities, to do immigration,\u201d she adds. \u201cThis is at a cost to the taxpayer because ICE only pays for the training, but they\u2019re not paying for that agent\u2019s salary. So, that\u2019s coming out of our pockets.\u201d<\/p>\n

She adds many of these agreements are being executed out of the public eye.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can\u2019t happen in closed-door meetings with the community not having access,\u201d she says. \u201cWe need to know why the sheriffs want to do this, we need to know the conversations they\u2019re having, and we want to know why the sheriffs think this is a good idea for their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dominguez says other concerns are that the 287(g) agreements compromise public safety, lead to racial profiling, and erode trust between immigrant communities and law enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Mark Richardson HOUSTON \u2013\u00a0The American Civil Liberties Union is\u00a0confronting a number of Texas counties\u00a0that have entered into law-enforcement agreements with federal immigration officials. The ACLU of Texas has filed Public Information Act requests with seven county sheriffs\u2019 offices, asking for details of their 287(g) agreements made with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7834,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7830\/revisions\/7834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}