Tag: sanctuary city

  1. Butler County Takes a Stand: Reverses Sanctuary Policy to Improve Public Safety

    The Butler County, Pennsylvania, prison board recently voted unanimously to reverse policies that had prevented county prison officers from cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) to remove deportable inmates. The new policy requires the prison warden to provide ICE with a list of inmates each week, grant ICE officers access to the prison to interview inmates, give ICE “adequate notice” of criminal noncitizen releases and transfers, READ MORE READ MORE

  2. ICE Targets Middlesex County, New Jersey, in “Sanctuary” County Enforcement Surge

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced the end of a five-day immigration enforcement operation targeted at Middlesex County, New Jersey.  The operation, led by the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Newark Field Office, resulted in the arrest of 37 individuals from Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, and Turkey. According to an official ICE statement, the READ MORE READ MORE