House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES

House GOP Finds Everything Wrong With Immigration Law And Tries to Make It Worse - COLORLINES: "Here’s some of what the SAFE Act does:

Hands states and localities the power to pass and enforce their own criminal and civil penalties for immigration violations.  The provision is in direct opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling last year over Arizona’s SB 1070.
Authorize all local police to act as immigration agents, essentially nationalizing the 287(g) program, which has been widely criticized for encouraging racial profiling and eroding police-community trust.  
Lets local cops detain immigrants in their jails for up to two weeks and then requires ICE to lock up all immigrants that local cops detain.
Expands the kinds and categories of crimes that make people mandatorily deportable, without recourse to a judge. This would include people the government “has reason to believe” have ever been a member of a gang, even without a conviction."

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