How to Break ICE’s Hold on Your Community

This webpage provides resources to get you started on breaking ICE’s hold on your Community.

The Basics:

• Factsheet: Limiting Local Cooperation With ICE Holds
• Frequently Asked Questions About Detainer Discretion
• Local ICE Hold Ordinances:  An Overview
• ICE Holds are Voluntary:  A summary of authority from federal courts, states’ attorneys, county counsel and ICE confirming that local law enforcement agencies do not have to submit to ICE holds
• Sample ICE Hold Form, I-247
• Spanish Community Education Material: Dile No a La Poli-Migra

Toolkits:

• All in One Guide to Defeating ICE Holds (2012)
• Getting Started: Breaking ICE’s Hold on Your County or State (Dec 2011)

State and Local Policies:

* Local ICE Hold Ordinances:  Full Text

• Cook County
• Santa Clara County
• Washington, DC
• New York City
• Taos, New Mexico
• San Francisco (resolution by Board of Supervisors calling on Sheriff to stop complying with ICE holds)
• Connecticut

In Depth:

* Local ICE Hold Ordinances: Full Text
* Full text of federal court decisions, legal memos, and internal ICE documents confirming that ICE holds are voluntary:

• Buquer v. City of Indianapolis, — F.Supp.2d —-, 2011 WL 2532935 (S.D. Ind. 2011
• Memo from Miguel Marquez, Santa Clara County Counsel
• Letter from David Venturella, Assistant Director, Secure Communities to Miguel Marquez, Santa Clara County Counsel
• ICE FOIA 2674.020612, Briefing to Congressional Hispanic Caucus
• ICE FOIA 2674.017695, Emailed Q&A
• Memo from Patrick Driscoll, Deputy State’s Attorney, Cook County, Illinois, July 26, 2011

Resources for Faith Communities

• Immigration Advocacy Toolkit
• Family Pledge to Stop ICE Holds

The Numbers:

Through the Freedom of Information Act, the National Immigration Justice Center obtained data about all the ICE holds issued nationwide from 2007-2010.

Download the spreadsheets for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and sort by location to find out how many detainers were issued in your county or city.

In the News:

• City Limits Cooperation With Federal Immigration Officials at Rikers, Nov. 22, 2011
• Cook County Defies Government On Immigration Detainers, Oct. 5, 2010
• Santa Clara County Ends Collaboration with ICE, Oct. 18, 2011
• San Francisco County jail won’t hold inmates for ICE, May 5, 2011
• SF supervisors urge city to defy federal immigration holds, Dec. 14, 2011