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It’s Time for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department to End All ICE Transfers

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Earlier this year, the Harbor Institute for Immigrant and Economic Justice released an analysis of data from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department (OCSD) reflecting transfers of community members to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Last year, OCSD transferred 221 individuals to ICE. Most were Mexican, Vietnamese, and Central American community members.

There are numerous practical reasons and moral imperatives for OCSD to stop voluntarily transferring community members over into the hands of federal immigration enforcement. First, our local governments should not use our local resources to assist or facilitate federal immigration officers in their efforts to separate families and fracture our communities. In other counties with large immigrant and refugee populations like Los Angeles County, sheriff’s departments no longer transfer community members to ICE. OCSD remains in the small minority of California sheriff’s departments that transfers community members to ICE despite no consistent empirical evidence that working with ICE decreases crime. OCSD is wasting taxpayer money by continuing a harmful practice that researchers have repeatedly failed to prove is systematically effective at promoting public safety.





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