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Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. (boltsmag.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/news@lemmy.world

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Virginia’s then-Governor Glenn Youngkin rushed to assist President Trump’s deportation agenda last year, ordering the state agencies under his control to join ICE’s 287(g) program, which gave them the power to make civil immigration arrests. He also pushed local sheriffs and police chiefs to join the program and help round up immigrants.

But his successor, Democrat Abigail Spanberger, put an end to the state’s partnerships with this ICE program on Wednesday, fulfilling a campaign promise to roll back collaboration.

Within hours of taking office on Jan. 17, Spanberger signed an executive order that rescinded Youngkin’s order mandating that state agencies contract with ICE, but that alone left the agreements intact. She went a step further this week by actually pulling the plug and ordering four state agencies, including the state police and the Department of Corrections, to end their 287(g) agreements, terminating their role as force multipliers for federal immigration authorities.

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 62 points 4 weeks ago

Good start, but everyone involved with ICE and this administration needs to be put on trial for their crimes as a bare minimum

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Good. But aren't ICE advancing with impunity in ALL states regrdless of co-operation?

I also heard something about the sheer numbers, I think it was Minneapolis: a few hundred police (i.e. the city's whole police force) vs. a few thousand ICE.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 weeks ago

It’s more ICE is surging in one place only to draw down to go to another place.

Think it like wack-a-mole.

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 13 points 4 weeks ago

Every state needs to do this at minimum, as much as possible and NOW.

Every resident should be contacting their representatives and demand this.

Every state that is able to do this needs to join in collaboration with other states and combine collective power.

[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

[–] jjpamsterdam@feddit.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

I misread Program as Pogrom for second and wasn't even all that baffled.