California refers US citizen prisoners to ICE based on racist assumptions, lawsuit says

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the scene during a pre-dawn apprehension in Bell Gardens, California, on March 16, 2020. The Cali...

April 30, 2023
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the scene during a pre-dawn apprehension in Bell Gardens, California, on March 16, 2020. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as a policy, refers all "foreign-born" state prisoners to ICE and often places immigration "holds" on them as a result, according to the ACLU of Northern California, which represents prisoners in the case. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS

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