Fed Event: Delegation and Divergence: 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement

Delegation and Divergence: 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement


Mon, Jan 31, 2011, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

MPI Conference Room
1400 16th Street, NW
Suite 300 (Third Floor)
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

Randy Capps, Demographer and Senior Policy Analyst, MPI

Beth Gibson, Assistant Deputy Director, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Jerry Gonzalez, Executive Director, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO)

LeRoy Kirkegard, Captain, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Moderator: Muzaffar Chishti, Director, MPI Office at NYU School of Law

Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act permits the federal government to delegate certain immigration enforcement powers to state and local jurisdictions. 287(g) programs have surged into the public consciousness in recent years. Now operating in 72 jurisdictions, the 287(g) program authorizes state and local law enforcement officers to screen people for immigration status, issue detainers to hold unauthorized immigrants on immigration violations, and begin the process of their removal from the United States.

While the program is supervised by federal immigration officials, states and localities have applied their 287(g) authority in widely divergent ways, in some cases provoking substantial community controversy. With the federal government expanding the Secure Communities program, another state-local partnership, to almost 900 jurisdictions, the Obama administration confronts an important choice -- whether to use these programs in a targeted fashion, primarily pursuing those who have committed a serious crime, or as tools to pursue the removal of large numbers of unauthorized immigrants in general.

MPI invites you to join us for the release of a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report, Delegation and Divergence: A Study of 287(g) State and Local Immigration Enforcement, which addresses the 287(g) program’s goals, implementation, outcomes, costs, and community impacts, as well as provides recommendations for its reform. The report is based on a review of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data on the crimes committed by persons detained through 287(g) and in-depth interviews with a range of respondents in seven 287(g) jurisdictions visited by the study’s authors. Copies of the report will be available at the event.

If you have any questions about the event or experience any difficulties while using our registration system, please contact Lisa Dixon via email at events@migrationpolicy.org or by phone at (202) 266-1929.

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