Transgender women face disproportionately high amounts of abuse in immigration detention centers, activists say. They want officials to cancel the contract to house federal immigration detainees at the city jail.
Tag: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
ICE in Orange County, covered from the courthouse and the neighborhood rather than the press release. Raids and the fear that follows them, arrests at immigration court, what cities will and will not disclose and residents pressing their own officials to respond.
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, News Briefs, Top Stories
Immigrant-Rights Protesters Shut Down Meeting on Sheriff’s Controversial Policy
Activists showed up in force to a Wednesday meeting on the Orange County Sheriff’s Department policy of handing over jail inmates to federal immigration authorities.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Santa Ana Council Hears Debate Over Fate of City Jail
Activists who see the city’s contract with the federal government to house immigration detainees at the city jail as an insult to Santa Ana’s majority Latino population clashed Tuesday with jail employees who say the activists have painted an inaccurate picture of conditions at the jail.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, News Briefs, Santa Ana
Santa Ana Council to Talk About Getting Out of the Jail Business
The city’s jail has long been controversial because it houses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees in a largely Latino city. Tuesday, council members will consider a move toward ending the contract with ICE.
Posted inHealth & Wellness, Santa Ana
What Would it Cost to Shut Down Santa Ana’s Jail?
The Santa Ana City Council is, for the first time, publicly considering whether to shutter its controversial city jail. But a back-of-the-napkin analysis of the potential costs of such a decision shows why it’s a “tough nut to crack.”
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Advocates Tout Gains, Challenges in Restorative Justice Efforts
Organizing efforts and local restorative justice programs spearheaded by Orange County groups like Santa Ana Boys and Men of Color were highlighted at a forum at UC Irvine Wednesday evening.
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Santa Ana to Obama: Protect Immigrants From ‘Needless Deportations’
The Santa Ana City Council this week unanimously approved a resolution calling on the president to stop the deportation of Samuel Sixtos-Gomez, a city resident turned over to immigration authorities in violation of the Trust Act.
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories
Troubled Pasts Force Hard Choices for Some Undocumented Immigrants
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was designed to give undocumented immigrants who arrived as children a chance to go to college and get work. But some who’ve had troubles at school or with law enforcement see it as a trap.
Posted inSanta Ana, Top Stories
Santa Ana Backs Away From ICE Contract Expansion
After immigrant rights activists spoke out against a proposal to increase the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the city jail, the Santa Ana City Council scrapped the idea.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Countywide, Santa Ana
Cortez: Will Santa Ana’s Latino City Council Side With Human Rights Or With ICE and Trump?
Hairo Cortes, of Orange County Immigrant Youth United, challenges Santa Ana’s city council to resist a proposal on Tuesday night to increase the maximum number of LGBTQ and other detainees the city can imprison for ICE at its jail.
