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By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: August 24, 2009
In a city with a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach to immigration status,
it may come as a surprise to many that the New York Department of
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At least 13,000 Rikers inmates have been placed in deportation
proceedings since 2004 through this practice, a coalition of
immigrant advocacy groups has learned from data obtained in a
Freedom of Information Act request. The groups, and their lawyers
at the Immigrant Justice Clinic of Cardozo School of Law, will
discuss the findings and start a protest campaign Tuesday morning at Judson Memorial
Church in Lower Manhattan.
“This is a huge program with enormous consequences for New Yorkers,” said Nancy
Morawetz, a professor at New York University School of Law, who helped one of the
groups file for the information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “The
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The advocacy groups, which include the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City, Make
the Road New York and the Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights,
contend that this process is “leaving the deportees’ families abandoned in New York and
dependent on our city’s strained social service system.” The groups plan to ask the City
Council to refuse federal agents access to pretrial detainees.
Gilliam Brigham, a spokeswoman for the immigration agency, defended the program.
“By processing these criminal aliens for removal before they are released to the general
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The Rikers effort, she added, is “one element of ICE’s comprehensive strategy to build
cooperative relationships with local law enforcement agencies.”
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Stephen J. Morello, a spokesman for the Department of Correction, said the department
provides federal immigration officers, who have free office space at Rikers, a list of newly
admitted foreign-born inmates. But the information — including country of birth, if a
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detainee supplies it — is publicly available on the department’s Web site, he said, and if
federal agents decide they want to visit a foreign-born detainee, the department
cooperates.
After hearing advocates’ concerns that inmates were being inadequately notified of the
nature of the visits and their right to decline them or to have legal representation, the
department agreed in June to refine the current notification form, provide it in several
languages and train correction officers about the issue, Mr. Morello added.
“The department does not provide ICE information about the inmate’s immigration
status, since under the mayor’s executive order, city agencies are prohibited from asking
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Peter L. Markowitz, director of the Immigrant Justice Center at Cardozo, praised the
department for “moving in the right direction.” But he said immigration agents have
sometimes used “coercive and deceitful tactics” in questioning foreign-born pretrial
detainees, effectively denying them their constitutional rights to be presumed innocent,
to remain silent and to be represented by a lawyer. These tactics affect foreign-born
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United States citizens as well as unauthorized immigrants and legal residents subject to
deportation, he said.
The Rikers program was a precursor to a larger federal effort to identify and deport illegal INSIDE NYTIMES.COM
immigrants held in local jails. That effort, known as Secure Communities, was begun
under President George W. Bush and is being vastly expanded by the Obama
administration, which hopes to establish a more computerized program nationwide by
late 2012, when it is projected to cost about $1 billion a year.
Now operating in about 70 counties, it allows local officials to check fingerprints taken at
jails with federal immigration authorities.
“All these systems are designed to sweep in people and then sort it out while they’re in
detention in Texas without access to lawyers,” Professor Morawetz said. One result, she
added, has been the mistaken deportation of United States citizens and another has been
the deaths in detention of longtime New Yorkers with little or no criminal record.
“The statistics show that these are not isolated cases,” she said, “but rather a result of a
systematic program that threatens all foreign nationals.”
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NEW YORK, NY - Immigration authorities have begun deportation proceedings against an estimated 13,000
inmates held at the Rikers Island penal complex in New York City since 2004.
A coalition of immigrant advocacy groups says that they obtained the data through a Freedom of Information Act
request. The data demonstrates how the city's Department of Correction works with federal immigration
authorities.
The group plans to release their findings on Tuesday at a news conference.
The Department of Correction says it gives information about newly-admitted foreign-born inmates to federal
immigraiton officers, but does not provide information about immigration
status.
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By Carmen Alarcon, EDLP, 26 August 2009. Translated from Spanish by Emily
Leavitt.
Federal immigration agents are interviewing inmates in New York prisons, violating
their rights, and conducting about 3,000 deportation proceedings annually.
"Take ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] out of jails," close to 150 people
shouted in unison yesterday at Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan, where proimmigrant organizations announced that they had reached an agreement with the
commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections to regulate ICE's
access to inmates in the prison system.
At least 13,000 inmates at Rikers Island (the largest prison in the city) have been
placed under deportation proceedings since 2004, revealed activists who obtained
these figures through the Freedom of Information Act. There are 105,000 people
detained annually at Rikers.
According to Javier Valdés, executive director of Make the Road New York, "ICE
officials dressed in plain clothes interrogate prisoners without identifying themselves,
violating the right of inmates to remain silent and have a lawyer present."
The Northern Manhattan Coalition for Immigrant Rights, the New Sanctuary
Movement, and Make the Road New York, which launched the campaign yesterday to
regulate ICE's intervention in the prison system, announced the agreement with
Martin F. Horn, commissioner of the New York City Department of Correction.
"Inmates will be notified when ICE asks to interview them, and they will also be asked
to personally give permission for those interviews," explained Reverend Giovanny
Sánchez of the New Sanctuary Movement.
"Although the Department of Correction is not obligated to inform inmates, the
Commissioner made a promise and we are already moving forward with the necessary
forms and training for officers," said Stephen Morello, spokesperson for the
Department of Correction.
Morello added that the Department of Corrections does not ask about inmates' legal
status – only their birthplace – and that is the information given to ICE.
Out of the 4,000 inmates interviewed annually by ICE, 3,000 start deportation
proceedings and 3,200 face retention orders, according to information obtained by
activists.
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A retention order is when the prison does not release inmates under the orders of ICE,
even if they have completed their sentence or have been declared innocent, explained
Jennifer Brown, public defender for the Federal Defenders of New York.
According to the New York Bar Associate, 3,979 inmates at Rikers Island received
retention orders in 2007 and were sent to Texas, Alabama, or Louisiana, where they
began deportation proceedings.
"Rikers can only hold an inmate under a retention order for up to 48 hours, and after
that the inmate is free to leave," explained Morello.
But that doesn't always happen.
This summer, the Immigrant Rights Clinic at NYU won a lawsuit for $145,000 against
the Department of Correction for having held an inmate, Cecil Harvey, for 30 days
under a retention order, explained Alisa Wellek, the lawyer in the case.
The brother-in-law of Florentina Williams, a Colombian, was picked up by ICE at
Rikers after he had been declared innocent. Today he is at a detention center in Texas
and faces deportation. "He didn't know that ICE was waiting for him," said Williams.
According to Human Rights Watch, in 2008, ICE had 300,000 immigrants waiting for
a decision on their cases, and this year they expect that number to exceed 400,000.
The regional ICE office said that the Criminal Alien Program (CAP), [which focuses on
identifying, processing, and removing criminal aliens who are incarcerated in federal,
state and local prisons] which includes Rikers, permits agents to impose retention
orders on immigrant inmates who have been arrested for crimes in the community.
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NUEVA YORK (AP) - Activistas y grupos religiosos de Nueva York iniciaron el martes una
campaña de protesta para exigir que las autoridades dejen de deportar a inmigrantes
encarcelados.
"La Agencia de Inmigración y Aduanas (ICE en inglés) ha violado con regularidad los derechos
de las personas" en la cárcel de Rikers Island, señaló el reverendo Gionvanny Sánchez,
representante de la Coalición de Pastores Latinos. "Realizan interrogatorios con impunidad".
Las autoridades de ICE interrogan anualmente a alrededor de 4.000 extranjeros e inician
procesos de deportación en más de 3.000 casos, indicaron miembros de grupos activistas
como Make the Road New York (Marcar la Senda Nueva York), Northern Manhattan Coalition
for Inmigrant Rights (Coalición del Norte de Manhattan para los Derechos de los Inmigrantes),
the New Sanctuary Coalition (Coalición del Nuevo Santuario) y líderes religiosos, quienes
obtuvieron documentos sobre los interrogatorios realizados desde enero del 2004 en Rikers,
mediante una ley de acceso a la información.
"Los documentos muestran el grado de
penetración de las operaciones de ICE
en la ciudad de Nueva York", señaló
Peter L. Markowitz, director del Centro
de Justicia Migratoria Cardozo.
Los activistas denunciaron que los
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De acuerdo con una ordenanza de la ciudad, las agencias no pueden preguntar el status
migratorio de los extranjeros. Steven Morello, vocero del departamento de Prisiones, no pudo
ser contactado de inmediato pero indicó al diario The New York Times que el departamento no
le pregunta a los extranjeros por sus status, pero que sus nacionalidades son información
pública.
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