How does Trump Admin. Obtained from sheriffs to detain undocumented immigrants

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The Trump administration “aggressively recruited local law enforcement partners and courted sheriffs who held similar views on immigration policy” as it sought to advance its immigration agenda, dozens of internal ICE emails obtained by the Washington Post show. Under the Trump administration, the partner count of the 287 (g) program – which allows state and local law enforcement officials to act with federal authority to interview, report, and detain undocumented immigrants – and a related program, has quadrupled. “Although the ICE has promised that the program will focus only on serious criminals,” the Washington Post reported, “pro-immigration groups have repeatedly warned that partnerships allow hard-core sheriffs to target those without. – papers leading a peaceful life “. The Washington Post

In other federal immigration news …

Senate plans to build back better

The Build Back Better Act was passed in the House on Friday and will then arrive in the Senate. The House bill included various immigration measures, including granting provisional work permits to approximately 6.5 million undocumented immigrants through parole. The cost of this operation would be more than 100 billion dollars over ten years, estimated the Congressional Budget Office. But it is still not clear that the policy will comply with Senate budgetary rules, NBC reports. The Senate parliamentarian has already rejected two immigration provisions proposed by Democrats that would have offered a path to citizenship. NBC News

House MPs call on Senate to extend immigration protections

Nearly half of House Democrats called on the Senate to increase immigration protections in the Build Back Better Act, which passed in the House, ahead of the upper house vote. In a letter, House members led by Democratic Representatives Jesús García (Illinois), Lou Correa (California), Adriano Espaillat (NY), Grace Meng (NY) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), “urged the Senate leaders to restore a path to citizenship in the Senate version of President Biden’s social spending and climate bill. ”In the letter, lawmakers called on the Senate to include a path to citizenship. hill