Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says
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Source: Los Angeles Times
Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says
Andrea Castillo
Tue, August 29, 2023 at 10:38 AM EDT·8 min read
On Aug. 18, 2022, a records department employee at the California Correctional Center emailed federal immigration authorities a list of people they believed could be subject to deportation. The list noted that most of those named were born outside the U.S. or had an unknown birthplace. But 12 people were listed as having been born in this country.
That email was obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union's Northern California affiliate and shared with The Times. The advocacy group says California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation staff routinely assume people in their custody are deportable immigrants — even when their own records indicate they are U.S. citizens or immigrants who should not be deported — and report those individuals to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement while denying them rehabilitation opportunities.
The records stem from a public records request filed last year by the ACLU affiliate, which sought communications between the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, or CDCR, and ICE. The ACLU and other advocacy groups said they analyzed about 2,500 unique records from August and September 2022, during which the department transferred more than 200 people from its facilities to immigration custody.
The groups detailed the results in a report published Tuesday that they say describes the practices employed by the department in cooperation with ICE and provides examples of alleged actions by department staff that are discriminatory, including against immigrants.
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