PLYMOUTH A civil rights group is asking the state s highest court to rule that the Plymouth County Sheriff cannot arrest or detain anyone on federal civil immigration charges.
The Boston group Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the petition with the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday asking it to find Plymouth Sheriff Joseph McDonald does not have the authority to enforce federal civil immigration laws. Some sheriff s deputies can make arrests on federal civil immigration detainers under an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
McDonald must renew the 287(g) agreement with ICE yearly. When McDonald and the sheriffs in Bristol and Barnstable counties, all Republicans, renewed the agreements in 2019, they came under fire for the decision. McDonald renewed his agreement again in June.
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