Alaska jails holding 40 immigration detainees from Outside under deal with ICE

ICE officials send 40 immigration detainees to Alaska correctional facilities

Anchorage Correctional Complex in 2020. (Photo by Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) The Alaska Department of Corrections, which handles the state’s jails and prisons, has taken in 40 people who were detained outside of the state by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The move comes amid a national crackdown on immigration by the Trump administration. In a statement, Alaska Deputy DOC Commissioner April Wilkerson said all 40 of the detainees…

Forty detainees sent to Alaska prior to deportation, protest called by socialists

Recent roundups of illegal immigrants in major cities across the country had led to the question: Where are the detainees going to be housed — temporarily or otherwise? The process of arresting them is one thing, but the Immigration and Customs Enforcement isn’t going to put ankle monitors on violent gang members and career criminals […] The post Forty detainees sent to Alaska prior to deportation, protest called by socialists appeared first on …

Alaska jails holding 40 immigration detainees from Outside under deal with ICE

The state Department of Corrections released few details about the detainees on Monday.