Some U.S. cities have been using two strategies to blunt the force of the federal government’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. The first: instituting policies (loosely called “sanctuary policies”) that limit cooperation of local jails and police departments with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—thus cutting off a primary pipeline to deportations. The second is providing legal aid for immigrants in deportation proceedings. In New York, one such program has led to a 1,100 percent increase in immigration cases that have a favorable outcome for the immigrant.
Of course, even with these policies, immigrants in diverse cities like New York are not safe from federal enforcement. And two new reports seek to shed light on how the federal government’s self-professed unshackling of ICE has been playing out despite local protective policies.
First up: a report and interactive map by the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which analyzes 650 raids going back as far as 2013. The majority of the mapped operations are from New York state—collected through Freedom of Information Act requests, collaborations with local advocacy groups, and through the two legal aid programs in the city—but they “reflect national trends,” the report reads.
[For more on this story by TANVI MISRA, go to https://www.citylab.com/equity...ration-raids/565847/]
For another story on a similar topic, see New York on Ice.
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