First responders cycle across Illinois to support families of police officers killed in the line of duty
First responders across Illinois cycle for police officers
First responders are going the extra mile this week to support the families of police officers killed in the line of duty.
CHICAGO - First responders are going the extra mile this week to support the families of police officers killed in the line of duty.
More than 70 cyclists including officers, state troopers and sheriff’s deputies from Illinois will ride 350 miles, from Alton to Chicago in four days.
The ride begins Thursday morning downstate and ends Sunday afternoon at the Gold Star Family Memorial near Soldier Field.
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Joe Biden Says Give Me Five Days to Hecklers Calling for Closure of Detention Centers
On 4/29/21 at 8:58 PM EDT
President Joe Biden responded to protesters who demanded that he shut down detention centers by asking for another five days and vowing to close all private prisons during a speech in Georgia.
The president traveled to the Peach State on Thursday and visited with former President Jimmy Carter before attending a drive-in rally to mark his first 100 days in office and promote the $4 trillion spending proposals that he outlined one day earlier during an address to Congress. Minutes after Biden s speech began, a small group of protesters interrupted it by shouting demands that he end detention now and abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
CALEXICO â The American Civil Liberties Union has targeted the Imperial Regional Detention Center as one of 39 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities across the United States it wants to see closed.
In a letter Wednesday to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkis, ACLU National Political Director Ronald Newman noted ICE is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain thousands of empty beds at ICE facilities. He argued that money would be better spent on alternatives to detention and other priorities.
âAs a matter of good governance, and particularly in light of the historically low number of people in ICE detention, it is time for ICE to dramatically downscale its network of more than 200 facilities,â Newman wrote.
The Adelanto U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif., is operated by GEO Group, Inc., a Florida-based company specializing in privatized corrections. The facility is one of 39 recommended by the ACLU for closure.
The American Civil Liberties Union is urging the Biden administration to close dozens of immigration detention facilities across the country, citing the historically low number of immigrants in detention and the high cost of paying for empty beds.
In a letter sent Wednesday to the Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the ACLU calls for the closure of 39 Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities.
The agency oversees a nationwide detention network of more than 200 facilities. The ACLU targeted some of them for downsizing because of allegations of detainee abuse at those facilities, limited access to lawyers and medical care, or inadequate justification for opening them.