ICE documents reveal deportation quotas, administration duplicity

The following was sent out by the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights.

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FOIA Docs Released to USA Today Reveal Deportation Quota Driving Immigration PolicyAdvocates Release Briefing Guide Exposing Decision to Enlist Local Police About Meeting Numbers Not About Safety 

February 19, 2013 - Atlanta, GA
Following the USA Today story outlining ICE tactics to boost deportation numbers, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, the ACLU Foundation of Georgia, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network released a briefing guide exposing ICE headquarters directives to Georgia and North Carolina field offices to disregard public safety concerns in order to meet self-imposed deportation quota requirements.

Adelina Nicholls, executive director of GLAHR adds, "The documents are damning evidence that the checkpoints that cover our state have nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with a rogue agency and its deportation dragnet.  It confirms the claims our community has been making for years about the agency’s practices. Georgia police should be stopped from any more roadside checkpoints until it is clear that they are not being used for ICE's quota."

"These revelations highlighting ICE's actual game plan of aggressively targeting undocumented community members to meet the agency's deportation quotas are deeply disturbing. It is time for the administration to stop such tactics and put an end to unjust deportations," explains Azadeh Shahshahani, National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project Director with the ACLU of Georgia. 

Chris Newman, legal director for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, says, "The Obama Administration's decision to enlist police as deportation 'force multipliers' was motivated by a self-imposed deportation quota.   These documents show that ICE tactics are expanding the agency's dragnet instead of narrowing its focus.   Until President Obama takes concrete steps to reign in rogue agencies within DHS,  his ostensible immigration reform goals will be put in jeopardy by actions that belie his words. 

The Briefing Guide is available at: http://ndlon.org/en/resources/item/609-deportation-quota-nc-brief

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