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Street roots July 20, 2012 Immigrant rights advocates seek protections against ‘Arizonafication’ S T A F F R E P O R TS immigrant communities. uman rights activists are In March, the Multnomah County campaigning to make sure Commissioners passed a resolution in an Multnomah County doesn’t go the attempt to put some oversight into the way of some parts of the country where federal program. Arizona-style” policies have damaged “The Board of County Commissioners immigrant trust in the community. shares the public’s deep concern regarding Portland Jobs with Justice, which issues raised by ICE’s mandatory implementation of the Secure Communities comprises several immigrant and labor Program in County jails, including but not justice groups, along with Voz Workers’ limited to, the erosion of public trust and Rights Education project want local public safety and the current and potential authorities to back up a resolution they impact it may have on the County’s General passed months ago with stronger Fund,” states the resolution, which is non protections for immigrant residents. binding. “What we want is to continue the work The resolution asks that ICE’s local we have done,” says Romeo Sosa, executive operatives exercise “prosecutorial director of Voz, which works with day discretion” and communicate with the laborers. “We just don’t want the resolution region on how it plans to fund, train and on paper. We really want them to take more implement its tracking and evaluation action.” methods. The Restoring Trust campaign, which The resolution also asks for information seeks to regain trust between the immigrant on the people from the region being communities and law enforcement, was deported, including the number of minors spurred on by the Supreme Court’s recent that have been deported or are in the decision regarding the Arizona immigration process of removal, U.S.-born minors whose law. That decision struck down much of the parents have been deported or are in the law, but upheld the requirement that state process of being deported. The county also law enforcement officers determine the wants to know how many men and women immigration status of anyone they stop or with child dependents that have been arrest, if they suspect that person is in the deported or are in the process, and how country illegally. many families have been separated as a Nationally, the U.S. Immigration and result of deportation. Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has On July 11, as part of a national week of implemented a program of detainment action, representatives from VOZ and Jobs called Security Communities, which with Justice addressed the Multnomah requests that local law enforcement officers County Board of Commissioners with detain people they arrest for 48 hours examples Multnomah County can follow. longer than required in order for ICE They cite the TRUST Act, passed in officials to determine their status. 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CUB has saved Become a Oregonians over CUB Member $5,400,000,000 today! since 1984. convictions - regardless of federal detainer requests. The Restoring Trust campaign also heralds similar efforts in Cook County, 111., Santa Clara, Calif., the state of Connecticut and Washington, D.C., that have approved legislation that sets standards for responding to ICE hold requests to protect against racial profiling. However, other states, such as Georgia, have followed Arizona’s lead by enacting harsher policies on the treatment of immigrants. Advocates say that in addition to racial profiling and civil rights violations, ICE holds also inadvertently lead to the removal of victims and witnesses, the detention of U.S. citizens, and serious economic burdens on local law enforcement agencies who foot the cost for longer incarceration periods. The Restore Truth campaign also claims that the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits the federal government from “commandeering” state and local resources for federal objectives, prevents the federal government from mandating state or local compliance with ICE holds. Lt. Steve Alexander with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Department says officers have changed nothing in their practice of holding detainees since the Secure Communities come into operation several years ago. “We have not changed our procedures here (regarding Security Communities) at this time,” Alexander says. “ICE has a separate process. We don’t notify anybody.” The nearest ICE detention facility is in Tacoma, Wash., but ICE does manage a short-terms holding facility in Portland, which sends detainees to Tacoma. good, local, food. ALBERTA COOPERATIVE GROCERY 1500 NE Alberta St. Portland, OR 97211 503.287.4333 www.albertagrocery.coop open to everyone 9-10 daily DINE OUT. DIG IN. 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