LA federal judge rules key part of immigration crackdown illegal

[struggle4progress]

By JOEL RUBIN
FEB 09, 2018 | 1:20 PM

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that police departments violate the Constitution if they detain inmates at the request of immigration agents, marking the latest legal setback for the Trump administration's plans to identify and deport immigrants in the country illegally.

In his order issued Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. found that a now-defunct policy of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department violated the constitutional rights of inmates who were kept in custody at the behest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

Birotte's strongly worded order bolstered similar previous court rulings, which found police cannot legally honor such detainer requests from ICE.

"The LASD officers have no authority to arrest individuals for civil immigration offenses, and thus, detaining individuals beyond their date for release violated the individuals' Fourth Amendment rights," Birotte wrote ...

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ice-detainer-lawsuit-20180209-story.html

[Gothmog]

1. This is an important ruling with respect to the sanctuary city silliness

[triron]

2. So does this ruling affect this nationwide?

[Gothmog]

3. I have not read the opinion yet.

[Gothmog]

4. I skimmed the opinion and the only injunctive relief granted was for LA county

There are findings that many of the ICE detainer policies are illegal and violate the Constitution. There are a couple of other cases working their way through the system that will make the typical ICE detainer program hard to enforce