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NY Times Editorial on 287(g): "Too Broken to Fix"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

April 9, 2010 Editorial- NY Times Too Broken to Fix The Department of Homeland Security?s inspector general has affirmed what sheriffs, police chiefs, civil-rights lawyers and immigrant advocates have said for years: Outsourcing immigration enforcement to an ill-trained and poorly supervised assortment of state and local law enforcement agencies creates a lot of problems. The program, commonly known as 287(g), deputizes local authorities as federal immigration agents so they can help Immigration and Customs Enforcement capture illegal immigrants who threaten the community or national security. A new report by the inspector general instead paints a portrait of 287(g) agencies as a motley posse of deputies who don?t know Spanish, who don?t know or care about the dangers of racial profiling and who operate well beyond the control of the federal agency that they are supposed to be working for...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).