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Yvette Cabrera, ThinkProgress, Dec. 22, 2017 - "The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office in Northern Virginia is holding people in jail past their release date at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] using a technique that raises...

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Mar. 24, 2017 - "Today, ICE issued a new policy regarding use of immigration detainers. Sometimes called immigration holds, detainers are requests by ICE that a local law enforcement...

" Immigration Detention as Punishment led me farther back in time to the beginning of the “war on drugs.” 1986 was the birth year of modern “ immcarceration ” (hat tip to Anil Kalhan for that evocative term), when Congress...

"A federal magistrate judge in Oregon concluded that county officials violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when they kept her in custody solely on the basis of an immigration detainer. Miranda-Olivares v. Clackamas County , No. 3:12-cv...

"In an important decision, the New Mexico Supreme Court held that Padilla v. Kentucky , 559 U.S. 356 (2010), applies retroactively to 1990. Ramirez v. State , No. 33,604, slip op. (N.M. June 19, 2014). The court’s decision departs from the...