City correction officers, who are largely barred from cooperating with federal immigration officials, on at least several occasions in recent years went above and beyond to coordinate with ICE agents in the deportation of immigrants, according to emails.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.City correction officers, who are largely barred from cooperating with federal immigration officials, on at least several occasions in recent years went above and beyond to coordinate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the deportation of incarcerated immigrants, according to a trove of emails unveiled during a City Council hearing on Wednesday.
Emails introduced in the hearing were among hundreds between the DOC and ICE from 2015 to 2019 that were obtained by Immigrant Defense Project and Black Alliance for Just Immigration, pursuant to a public records request. Some of the communications were reviewed by Gothamist. Councilmember Shekar Krishnan later added, “These emails show a culture – a pattern and practice – of DOC regularly cooperating with ICE in contradiction of the laws passed by this body.”
The DOC has even narrower standard policies for communicating with ICE, according to agency officials’ testimony. If the DOC receives an ICE detainer, and the incarcerated individual doesn’t fit the necessary criteria – either having a qualifying conviction or being on a terrorist watchlist – the DOC won’t communicate further with ICE about that person, Shechtman said.
“The proof in many ways, as they say, is in the pudding,” Shechtman said, adding that the DOC received 109 detainers and released eight people last fiscal year.
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