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Mayors Celebrate Immigrants While Facing ICE's New 'Non-Cooperative' City List

Route Fifty: A bipartisan group of mayors continued their push for comprehensive, federal immigration reform on Tuesday and couldn’t go an entire Cities’ Day of Immigration Action without addressing U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement’s newly released report publicizing “non-cooperative jurisdictions.”

At issue is the federal government’s shaming of cities that decline to detain suspects in local custody on ICE’s behalf because they might be undocumented immigrants and, thus, deportable.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors contested ICE’s first, weekly Declined Detainer Outcome Report on the grounds compliant cities like New Orleans were included, detainers aren’t warrants needed to constitutionally hold suspects longer than the legal requirement, and in most cases those in custody had been charged but not convicted of the crimes listed.

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