In 2012, Chicago's city council passed a "welcoming city ordinance," which stops city police from holding undocumented immigrants for immigration authorities unless they've been convicted of a serious crime or there's been an arrest warrant issued for them.
(A separate Levy initiative authorized local police officers to report suspected illegal immigrants to federal immigration authorities.) Mr. Beedenbender, the county legislator, said that if his law is approved, it would also be selectively enforced by current county officials, with more money and employees to be budgeted depending on the number of complaints about violators.
Arizona, like many other states, already releases some jailed illegal immigrants to the immigration authorities, but the new plan would expand the pool.
Under Texas's SB 4, signed into law a year ago Monday, she must turn any detained immigrants into federal immigration authorities upon request, and she can't instruct her police officers to refrain from asking individuals' immigration status.
Immigrants' rights groups reviled Secure Communities, which helped federal immigration authorities identify undocumented immigrants arrested for other reasons by local law enforcement.
A lawsuit filed Thursday in a federal court in New York by Latino immigrants seeks to force immigration authorities to complete hundreds of thousands of stalled naturalization petitions in time for the new citizens to vote in November.
The New York Civil Liberties Union expressed concern about the arrests yesterday to the New York Police Department, saying they could set a worrisome precedent and possibly expose the laborers, some of whom may be illegal immigrants, to action by immigration authorities.
A19 Investigating Immigrant Deaths Authorities in Iowa began extracting and identifying the remains of 11 adults, believed to be either Mexican or Central American immigrants being smuggled into the United States, that were found inside a locked Union Pacific rail car.
In an interview on Fox News Thursday, Geraldo Rivera slammed the network for giving so much weight to the claim that Tibbetts's suspected killer, Cristhian Rivera, is an undocumented immigrant, something authorities have alleged but his lawyer denies, the Washington Post reports.
In Englewood, where the police estimate that up to a fifth of the population of 26,000 are illegal immigrants, the authorities have long asked about immigration status, so "this doesn't change things at all," according to Arthur O'Keefe, the deputy police chief.
