Immigration

Illinois’ ICE detention ban to take effect within weeks following appeals court ruling
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Kankakee and McHenry counties will have to terminate their immigration detention contracts after an appeals court ruling Wednesday.
Carlos is a reporter at Injustice Watch covering police, politics and immigrant communities. Previously, he worked at the Chicago Sun-Times and Newsweek. Carlos was born in Chicago and lives in the city’s Lower West Side.
Kankakee and McHenry counties will have to terminate their immigration detention contracts after an appeals court ruling Wednesday.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by two Illinois counties hoping to keep their lucrative immigration detention contracts.
Una demanda presentada por dos condados fuera de Chicago plantea interrogantes sobre la estrategia de activistas por los derechos de los inmigrantes de trabajar para poner fin a la detención de ICE un condado a la vez.
A lawsuit brought by two counties outside Chicago raises questions about immigrant rights activists’ strategy of working to end ICE detention one state and county at a time.
The Clay County Jail in southwestern Indiana will soon be the only immigration detention center between Wisconsin and Kentucky. The county is considering a proposal to more than double the jail’s size to detain more immigrants.
Sheriff Tom Dart filed a petition before the Illinois Supreme Court on Monday asking the justices to force the state department of corrections to accept the transfer of over 500 people from the Cook County Jail.
Former prosecutors dominate the roster of 22 new associate judges, who were selected last week by the county’s circuit judges.
How many cops have gotten their vaccine shots? The question has a definite answer. But no one in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office or the police department seems able to put a number on it.
But a lack of funding and personnel could drastically limit how many immigrants the county can represent.
On Tuesday, the chief judge’s office released the names of 44 candidates, half of whom will be chosen by circuit judges to fill vacancies.