Jeff Sessions’ misleading claim: California bans police cooperation with ICE
Jeff Sessions’ misleading claim: California bans police cooperation with ICE
- March 7, 2018
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and poli sci, via PolitiFact, March 7, 2018
Notably, local law enforcement can cooperate with ICE when undocumented immigrants
are convicted of about 800 serious misdemeanors and felonies, said Louis DeSipio,
a political science professor at UC Irvine who studies immigration. "ICE is also able
to enter county jails to question immigrants," DeSipio said in an email.
For the full story, please visit http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/mar/07/jeff-sessions/jeff-sessions-misleading-claim-california-bans-pol/.
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