End ICE Detention in New York

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For years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has contracted with local jails in New York and across the country to detain tens of thousands of immigrants who have come to the U.S. seeking a better life — subjecting them to inhumane conditions and separating them from family and community. Instead of being kept behind bars, people arrested by ICE should be released to their families and be able to pursue citizenship with the support of counsel and their communities.

TELL LAWMAKERS: Immigration detention is immoral and unacceptable. End ICE’s contracts with jails and prisons in New York.

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Governor Kathy Hochul
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins
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Immigration detention is immoral and unacceptable. For years, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has contracted with local jails across the country – including in New York State – to detain tens of thousands of immigrants who have come to the U.S. seeking a better life. Politicians and federal immigration authorities shouldn’t be able to arrest immigrants en masse and jail them indefinitely. When people are arrested by ICE, they should be released.

In New York, in addition to the federally owned and operated immigration detention facility in Batavia, multiple local jails have contracts with ICE to detain people for civil immigration violations.

Immigration detention separates people from their families and communities, subjects them to inhumane conditions, and inflicts disastrous physical and mental health consequences on those detained. ICE’s long history of neglect and mistreatment of people in their custody and failure to improve conditions makes it clear: We need to end these contracts and release people.

I urge you to pass the Dignity Not Detention Act (A.4354/S.306) to end ICE’s contracts with jails and prisons in our state. The bill would prohibit New York’s jails and prisons from making new contracts with ICE and require counties to end any existing contracts, ending the local profiteering off ICE detention in New York State.

Washington should step up and end the cruelty in our immigration system. Until they do, New York must take action to support our communities. You should pass Dignity Not Detention to ensure that our immigration system serves our communities and allows people to pursue citizenship at home with their loved ones.

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End ICE Detention in New York

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