U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer looks on during an operation in Escondido, California on July 8, 2019. Photo: Gregory Bull/AP
Attorneys from the New York Civil Liberties Union and Bronx Defenders have alleged that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are violating a federal court order by continuing a “no-release” policy of detaining undocumented immigrants arrested over the last three years.
In court papers filed late Dec. 18, the groups said they had learning in a recent deposition that ICE was still using a risk assessment tool that it had allegedly rigged in 2017 to unlawfully classify undocumented, long-time residents as “high risk” in order to prevent their release from federal custody.
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