End 287(g) and prioritize community safety

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Rensselaer County is the only county out of New York’s 62 where the sheriff has handed over control of some of his officers directly to ICE.

Known as the 287(g) program, in which ICE deputizes local law officers to act as de facto federal immigration agents, these schemes divert local resources, make local law enforcement complicit in ICE’s cruelty, and erode community trust.

Tell Sheriff Russo: Stop diverting our resources for ICE’s cruelty.

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Sheriff Pat Russo

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Subject End 287(g) and prioritize community safety

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I’m writing to urge you to abandon your 287(g) agreement with ICE and stop diverting local resources away from community needs.

Allowing ICE to co-opt your officers to investigate, detain, and work to deport people for federal civil immigration robs our community of resources, threatens public health and safety, and makes us unwilling accomplices in ICE’s deportation machine.

ICE separates families and terrorizes communities. That’s why doing ICE’s dirty work threatens to erode community safety. It makes people less likely to seek help from or offer information to authorities, fearing that doing so could put them or those they love at risk of being torn away from family. Only a tiny fraction of the thousands of law enforcement agencies across the entire country participate in 287(g) because of this.

Now, in the midst of a pandemic, 287(g) also poses a grave risk to public health. It means swelling the number of people held in jails and detention facilities across the state. COVID-19 is spreading like wildfire in jails and prisons, where social distancing is impossible. Needlessly locking up more people puts detainees, jail staff, and our entire community at risk.

At a time when corrections officials across the country are reducing the numbers of people held for the sake of public health, Rensselaer’s 287(g) takes us in the opposite direction.

It’s time for Rensselaer to rejoin the rest of New York’s law enforcement agencies, and to prioritize community health and safety over ICE’s deportation agenda.

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