LA County Board of Supervisor to consider MOU with ICE From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) January 7, 2004 >From National Immigration Law Center:
Next Tuesday (1/11/05) the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will be considering Sheriff Baca's proposal to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with ICE in order to have Sheriffs' Dept. Custody Assistants interview new arrivals at the jail inmate processing center, and write them up for detainers and notices to appear. Currently ICE officers interview them at the end of the process, after they have been convicted, just before they are released. Many more people - including many who will not be convicted -- could be interviewed and placed in proceedings under this process. Sheriff Baca initially promoted this proposal as a way to get more federal reimbursement to the county for detaining undocumented persons through the SCAT program - but he now concedes that SCAT money is decreasing and there is no guarantee this process will bring any additional money. He claims that having 6 custody assistants perform this work entails no cost to the county because they already ask new arrivals a series of questions, and will simply need to ask some more questions and fill out some more paperwork. Immigrants' rights groups and others are opposing the proposal on numerous grounds, including that (1) it will increase distrust of the Sheriff's Dept. in immigrant communities and deter crime victims from coming forward to report crimes, thereby weakening law enforcement; (2) in reality it will incur increased costs, because immigration processing is much more time consuming; and (3) it will expose the county to liability, both for errors committed in immigration processing by poorly qualified custody assistants, even w/ ICE supervision, and for the county's responsibility in taking time away from existing jail personnel for additional duties at a time the county is experiencing a crisis due to overcrowding and lack of personnel at the jail. Currently of the 5 supervisors only Gloria Molina has come out in opposition to the proposal. It would very helpful to have people at the meeting to show opposition to this proposal. The meeting is at the Board of Supervisors (Temple and Grand) on Tue. Jan. 11 - they start the meeting at 9:30, though the measure could be discussed at any time that morning. Linton Joaquin Executive Director National Immigration Law Center 3435 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 2850 Los Angeles, CA 90010 (213) 639-3900 fax (213) 639-3911 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) =================================================================== National Immigrant Solidarity Network No Immigrant Bashing! Support Immigrant Rights! webpage: _http://www.ImmigrantSolidarity.org_ (http://www.immigrantsolidarity.org/) New York: (212)330-8172 Los Angeles: (213)403-0131 Please consider making a donation to the important work of National Immigrant Solidarity Network Send check pay to: ActionLA/SEE 1013 Mission St. #6 South Pasadena CA 91030 (All donations are tax deductible) *to join the immigrant Solidarity Network daily news litserv, send e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *a monthly ISN monthly Action Alert! listserv, go to webpage http://www.actionla.org/cgi-bin/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=list&l=isn *To join Our New Asian American News Wire, send-e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help save the life of a child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks & Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/mGEjbB/5WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
