Lawsuit Claims Sacramento Sheriff’s Office Illegally Transferred Immigrants To ICE

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced Tuesday it is suing the Sacramento County sheriff claiming his bureau illegally transferred immigrants to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The suit claims Sheriff Scott Jones is breaking authorities law.

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The suit — which was filed Monday connected behalf of Sacramento nonmigratory Michael Echeveste and country nonprofits United Latinos and NorCal Resist — alleges the sheriff’s bureau illegally transferred immigrants to ICE aft the inmates person completed their jailhouse sentences alternatively of releasing them backmost to their families and communities.

Examples were cited, including 1 claiming the sheriff’s bureau told ICE that Echeveste was getting released, truthful they could cuff him arsenic helium near Rio backmost successful 2018.

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Additionally, the ACLU said the sheriff’s bureau was violating California’s sanctuary instrumentality — the California Values Act — stating that “only a superior transgression condemnation grants section instrumentality enforcement the ineligible authorization to notify ICE astir a person’s upcoming merchandise from jail, oregon to transportation them to ICE.” The ACLU said it obtained documents that amusement the sheriff’s bureau “improperly notifies ICE of the impending merchandise of immigrants from 1 of 2 region jails, the Rio Consumnes Correctional Center (RCCC), and works to transportation them to ICE custody, adjacent erstwhile they deficiency ineligible grounds to bash so.”

“Through this lawsuit, I anticipation to springiness a dependable to different radical who are going done this situation, different radical who mightiness not cognize English arsenic good arsenic me, since I was raised retired present successful California,” Echeveste said successful a quality merchandise from the ACLU. “Just due to the fact that we weren’t calved present doesn’t mean we’re not quality and that we’re not deserving of rights. I’m precise fortunate to person a batch of assistance successful warring this, and I privation different radical to beryllium capable to combat for their rights too.”

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CBS13 reached retired to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office for remark but they said it is section argumentation to not remark connected pending litigation.

CBS13 Staff