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Iowa lawmakers considering bill that would force jails to hold inmates on ICE detainers

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DES MOINES – Local Iowa jails would be forced to hold inmates without a warrant and cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials under a bill being considered now in the legislature.

According to the Iowa ACLU, at least 26 county sheriffs are “following the law and limiting their cooperation” with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They are declining to honor warrantless ICE requests to hold individuals an additional 48 hours — or more — after they should be released.

Now, the Iowa House is considering a bill (HF 2276) “targeting” these 26 counties, prohibiting them from declining to work with ICE.  The ACLU says this new legislation “would harm our communities and punish local law enforcement who are following the Constitution” and the the 26 counties who do not honor ICE detainers “recognize this as a commonsense approach to avoid wrongfully holding people in jail.”

The ACLU claims that “in some states, U.S. citizens are suing for being held on these detainers.”

The bill being considered prohibits the state of Iowa and any state agency, officer, or employee or a county or city from adopting or enforcing any rule, ordinance, policy, or procedure that limits or restricts the enforcement of any federal immigration law to less than the full extent permitted by federal law. The bill also prohibits the state of Iowa and any state agency, officer, or employee or a county or city from certain activities relating to information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, whether lawful or unlawful, of any individual. The state of Iowa and any state agency, officer, or employee or a county or city shall not prohibit law enforcement officials or agencies from gathering such information, direct law enforcement officials or agencies not to gather such information, or prohibit the communication of such information to federal law enforcement agencies.

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