Though the two detention contracts ICE just ended were notorious, in my experience, the facilities don’t differ all that much, which is why I urge the Biden administration to close all detention facilities.
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Last week the Biden administration ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to close a detention facility in Massachusetts that has held many people from Connecticut. When ICE arrests immigrants here, they’re sent out of state because ICE has no jail beds here.
Most have ended up at the Bristol County House of Correction, where there have long been reports of inhumane conditions, overcrowding and poor sanitation. Following an incident during the pandemic, Massachusetts authorities found that Bristol violated detainees’ civil rights.
Now ICE has been ordered to end its contract with the jail and stop working with Bristol officers on immigration enforcement.
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24 May 2021
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is moving to end a local police program in Bristol County, Massachusetts, that has helped take illegal alien child rapists, attempted murderers, assailants, carjackers, and others off the streets.
Last week, Mayorkas announced he was directing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to end its 287(g) agreement with Bristol County, Massachusetts, as well as terminating DHS use of detention facilities in Massachusetts and Georgia both of which hold criminal illegal aliens.
The 287(g) program allows local police agencies to sign into agreements with ICE to seamlessly identify criminal illegal aliens and turn them over to federal agents for arrest and deportation.