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Civil Rights Group Sues Mass. Sheriff Over Immigration Enforcement The so-called 287(g) agreement grants a sheriff s office authority to perform certain ICE duties, such as the arrest, interrogation and transportation of people suspected of violating immigration laws
Published December 24, 2020
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A Boston civil rights group is taking a sheriff s office in Massachusetts to court over its involvement in federal immigration enforcement matters.
Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a petition with the state Supreme Judicial Court on Monday, asking the state s highest court to nullify an agreement between Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald s office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
PLYMOUTH A civil rights group is asking the state s highest court to rule that the Plymouth County Sheriff cannot arrest or detain anyone on federal civil immigration charges.
The Boston group Lawyers for Civil Rights filed the petition with the Supreme Judicial Court on Monday asking it to find Plymouth Sheriff Joseph McDonald does not have the authority to enforce federal civil immigration laws. Some sheriff s deputies can make arrests on federal civil immigration detainers under an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
McDonald must renew the 287(g) agreement with ICE yearly. When McDonald and the sheriffs in Bristol and Barnstable counties, all Republicans, renewed the agreements in 2019, they came under fire for the decision. McDonald renewed his agreement again in June.
Civil rights group sues sheriff over immigration enforcement
December 24, 2020 GMT
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) A Boston civil rights group is taking a sheriff’s office in Massachusetts to court over its involvement in federal immigration enforcement matters.
Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a petition with the state Supreme Judicial Court on Monday, asking the state’s highest court to nullify an agreement between Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald’s office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The so-called 287(g) agreement grants McDonald’s office, which oversees the county jail, authority to perform certain ICE duties, such as the arrest, interrogation and transportation of people suspected of violating immigration laws, Lawyers for Civil Rights said. It also gives its corrections officers access to ICE databases and training programs.