Aunt B add another story to the list...Youth asks San Mateo County to stop cooperating with federal immigration authorities
fast forward into story..Though not mandated by law, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, commonly known as ICE, has for more than a decade been encouraging cooperation from state and local agencies in detaining immigrants suspected of being in the country illegally. The collaboration has helped push deportations to record levels in recent years—up three percent to more than 400,000 in 2012.
For minors who are reported, it means being placed in an “ICE hold” while in juvenile hall, giving federal authorities 48 hours to retrieve them. From there, they are taken to detention facilities and put into deportation proceedings.
Not all detainees are ultimately deported; exemptions are often granted that allow youth to be reunified with their families. But critics argue that, at best, the months-long process is incredibly disruptive to the lives of young people.
“It’s not rehabilitating the youth; it’s actually making it worse,” Miranda said. “We know of a couple of cases that youth have come back from the facilities they were in, and they come back not wanting to go out, scared, not willing to participate” in the community.
Opponents of the juvenile ICE referrals also worry that the practice is vulnerable to error and racial profiling.
“Mistakes can be made,” said Helen Beasley, an attorney with Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. “A lot of these youth don’t understand their own immigration status.”
In recent years, this legal and ethical dilemma has been at the center of heated national debates over how far to extend protections and amnesties for undocumented minors. Santa Clara County ended its collaboration with ICE in 2011, adopting a new policy of not reporting any immigrants to the agency that Supervisor George Shirakawa called the “most progressive” in the nation.
http://peninsulapress.com/2013/02/12/youth-asks-san-mateo-county-to-stop-cooperating-with-federal-immigration-authorities/
They always are interjecting ripping familied apart.. I can use the same arguement Mexico is ripping families apart. illegals leave mexico and some never see their families again.Many start new families here. I never seen any supporters indicate how mexico should get with the program and start making jobs in mexico so no parents would have to leave the country.The illegals fully expect America to be their new parents..
They always use ripping families on this side of the border but say very little about mexico’s side of the border
“They always are interjecting ripping familied apart.. I can use the same arguement Mexico is ripping families apart. illegals leave mexico and some never see their families again.Many start new families here. I never seen any supporters indicate how mexico should get with the program and start making jobs in mexico so no parents would have to leave the country.The illegals fully expect America to be their new parents..
They always use ripping families on this side of the border but say very little about mexico’s side of the border”
Exactly! Truth is, men often have a family in Mexico and another one here full of squat and drop citizens.