Immigration & The Criminal System
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has come to rely heavily on state and local criminal justice systems in order to find non–U.S. citizens who may be deportable and push them into the detention and deportation process. This collaboration is a complex and ill-defined entanglement consisting of a web of unregulated and overlapping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) programs and mechanisms whose parameters and operations easily mutate, that are not restrained by formal regulations or mechanisms of accountability, that operate with little transparency, and that do not closely monitor or hold accountable the criminal justice systems that arrest and detain the people who end up in ICE custody. One particularly alarming result of this entanglement is that it is becoming more common for citizens, too, to be swept into the detention-deportation system.” (1)
As Norfolk Commonwealth Attorney, I will develop a task force that will aggressively address these concerns to ensure that all citizens in the City of Norfolk are treated fairly.
This Vision for Norfolk is Long Overdue!
Picture Courtesy of: At the intersection of race and the criminal justice system: Jayashri Srikantiah, Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, May 10, 2018.
(1) National Immigration Law Center, https://www.nilc.org/issues/immigration-enforcement/localjusticeandice/.