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A group of attorneys is demanding the release of federal immigration detainees held in New York and New Jersey, citing a memorandum issued by President Joe Biden’s administration that changed who should be considered a priority for detention and deportation.
The letter from Brooklyn Defender Services, the Legal Aid Society and the Bronx Defenders was sent Wednesday to Thomas Decker, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement s district office in New York, and seeks the prompt release of dozens of detainees they say are no longer a priority under the memo. We ve been making requests that there is this memo, and our clients don t fall under the priorities and they should be released, and they haven t, said Daniel Ball, a spokesman for Brooklyn Defender Services. As we say in the letter, they haven t addressed that at all.
Attorneys demand release of ICE detainees in NJ and NY, citing Biden administration memo
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A group of attorneys is demanding the release of federal immigration detainees held in New York and New Jersey, citing a memorandum issued by President Joe Biden’s administration that changed who should be considered a priority for detention and deportation.
The letter from Brooklyn Defender Services, the Legal Aid Society and the Bronx Defenders was sent Wednesday to Thomas Decker, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement s district office in New York, and seeks the prompt release of dozens of detainees they say are no longer a priority under the memo.
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Coalition Urges Congress Not to Expand Domestic Terrorism Charges
151 Organizations Call on Congress to Oppose the Expansion of Terrorism-related Legal Authority
January 19, 2021
Dear Members of Congress:
On behalf of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (The Leadership Conference), a coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than 220 national organizations to promote and protect civil and human rights in the United States, and the undersigned
151 organizations, we write to express our deep concern regarding proposed expansion of terrorism-related legal authority. We must meet the challenge of addressing white nationalist and far-right militia violence without causing further harm to communities already disproportionately impacted by the criminal-legal system. The Justice Department (DOJ), including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has over 50 terrorism-related statutes it can use to investigate and prosecute criminal conduct, including white
New York State’s Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit yesterday against the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and its leadership for failing to address longstanding patterns of abuse, as well as using excessive force and making false arrests during racial justice protests that began last summer.