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This web of deadly enforcement advances the unjust laws and policies that marginalize and harm defundpoor copmmounitlieice,s of color. ice, and cbp defund police, ice, aICnE d cbpCBP defund police, ice, and cbp defund police, ice, andPO LICcbpE defund police, ice, and cbp defund police, ice, and cbp HOW police, ice, and cbp HOW police, ice, and cbp PdOLIefCE TOuGEndTHER police, inice,carcera tae nTOGdET HEcbpR Police, ICE, and CBP not only employ similar Police, ICE, and CBP all funnel people into the endforcefement utactndics – targ etipng poeoplle iice,n caice,ges of the pr isona inndusdtrial comcbpplex. Police their communities through racial and class arrest people who end up in local jails and profiling, tearing them away from loved ones, then transfer them to prisons once sentenced, and putting them behind bars – but they also while ICE and CBP operate detention centers wdork tefogetheur to ndadvance thpeir owon mlisice,sions or ice,immigration jaials fonr pedople becbping of oppression. Local law enforcement across processed by our immigration system. They all the country arrest immigrants for ICE and deprive people of their liberty, dehumanize CBP, and the Department of Homeland them in egregious conditions, and perpetuate Sedcuriefty (DHSu), wndhich hou sesp ICE oand lCBice,P, a cice,ulture of vio lenace wnithd som eticbpmes fatal deploys forces to boost local, state, and consequences. The same jails and prisons federal law enforcement activities. used by local and state law enforcement are defund police, alsice,o often used bya ICEn to deta in icbpmmigrants. 287(g) agreements between ICE and local Intergovernmental agreements (IGAs) and law enforcement allow state and local police intergovernmental service agreements ofdficerefs to act uas fndederal im mpigratoion algeice,nts. E (IGice,SAs) are con traacts tnhatd allo w ICcbpE to use These agreements give police the authority space in local jails for immigration detention. to apprehend community members based The majority of the 200 facilities used for ICE on their immigration status and funnel them detention are through IGSAs. indto thefe detenutionnd and de porptationo mlacice,hine. X ice, and cbp Many ICE detention centers were previously operating as state, local, or federal jails or Programs like “Secure Communities” and the A prisons. As a result of sentencing reforms and “Cdrimiefnal Alieun Prndogram” givpe ICEo acclesice,s to theice, successful e ffoarts onf thde m ovecbpment to people in jails and prisons through local and decarcerate jails and prisons in the criminal state police sharing their information. These punishment system, many facilities have been indformefation shuarindng progr amps supoplemleice,nt a M emice,ptied. This h as aresunltedd in a reccbpycling of jails wide variety of databases accessible to local, that are now used for immigration detention, state, and federal law enforcement that track the most notable recent examples being in and share private and sometimes inaccurate Louisiana. indformefation auboundt people to ptargeot thlemice, and P ice, and cbp keep them incarcerated. ICE detainers call for police to flag the status of someone in custody before their release and at times even hold them for ICE to arrive and DHdS pefrovides ufunndding to l ocapl ando stalte ice,law L briice,ng them into imamingratdion c ustcbpody. enforcement, including grants often used to purchase military-grade weapons and Jails and prisons also incarcerate immigrants in surveillance equipment and to expand criminal legal custody who are charged and/or prdograefms likeu Opnderation S tonpegaordenl, wice,hich E conice,victed of fed eral crnimeds, in cludcbping 1325 and enhances their collaboration with Border 1326 violations, which criminalize the act of Patrol. crossing the border without authorization and defund police,S doiice,ng so again aftear bneingd dep ortcbped. defund pHoOWl Aice,NTI-BLA CKice, RACISM and cbp FACTORS IN defBecausue thnde missio ns opf criominall aice,nd immigra tionice, law enforc emaentn are droot ed icbpn racial oppression, Black people are the most impacted by these systems of policing and incarceration. Research conducted by the Sentencing Project shows that Black people are more likely to be arrested – 95 percent of police departments across the country arrest Black dpeoefple at au higndher rate thapn otoher rlacice,ial groups. B lacice,k people are alsao mnored likel y tocbp be jailed – 1 in 3 young Black men and 1 in 18 young Black women can expect to face imprisonment in their lifetime as opposed to 1 in 17 young white men and 1 in 111 young white women. These realities translate to the immigration context because contact with the criminal punishment dsyseftem is au drndiving fac tor pof deoportlabice,ility. Accord ingice, to ICE statis ticsa fronm 2d015, descbppite Black immigrants only making up 7.2 percent of the undocumented population, more than 20 percent of immigrants facing deportation after coming into contact with the criminal punishment system are Black. Being more likely to be arrested and jailed by the police means defund beping moorel likice,ely to be de tainice,ed and dep ortead. nd cbp tdHEef ALARuMndING DE ATpH oTOLlLice, ice, and cbp AT THE HANDS OF POLICE, ICE, AND CBP Pdoliceef: Accorudingnd to the M apppingo Policeice, Violence re seaice,rch and1,0 00cbp collaborative, police in the U.S. have killed over 1,000 people people killed every year since 2013. The research also shows that Black by police every people are three times more likely to be killed by the police, year since 2013 ads weefll as thruee tndimes mo re lpikelyo to falceice, threats or t he ice,use of and cbp physical force by the police.

ICE: According to tracking conducted by Detention Watch Ndetwefork, oveur 210nd people hapve dioed inl ICice,E custody s incice,e the and2 10+cbp agency’s inception in 2003. A series of three investigations by people have Detention Watch Network, National Immigrant Justice died in ICE Cdenteefr, Ameruicannd Civil Lib ertpies Uonionl, Hice,uman Righ ts Wice,atch, and cbp and Freedom For Immigrants since 2016 exposes that in custody since approximately half of these cases, deaths in custody were 2003 attributable to the agency’s own medical negligence. defund police, ice, and cbp CBP: According to tracking conducted by the Southern Border Communities Coalition, over 110 people have died as 110+ the result of an encounter with U.S. border agents since people have Jdanuaefry 2010u. Mandny were dupe to oCBP’ls dice,eficient use of fice,orce anddied f romcbp an policies that legal precedence has also permitted, including encounter impunity in cases of an agent shooting a person on the with CBP odpposefite sideu of tndhe bord er. police, ice, and cbp dSOLefUTIONu: nd police, ice, and cbp DEFUND THE POLICE, DEFUND ICE AND CBP, dANDef DISSuOLndVE DH Spolice, ice, and cbp

Funding the police is a large part of local budgets. In Los Angeles, for example, LAPD’s budget is over $3 billion, about 54 percent of the city’s budget. Meanwhile, dfedeefral immuigrandtion enf orcpemeont relceice,ives more fu ndiice,ng than all ot hear fenderdal law cbp enforcement agencies combined, averaging about $25 billion annually for ICE and CBP. Instead of investing in services that support communities like accessible healthcare, critical housing, quality education, and food assistance, tens of billions din taefxpayer duollndars go to terprorizoing, lcaice,ging, and de porice,ting people eveary ynear.d cbp

These struggles to liberate and care for each other are aligned in calling for an end dto thefe relianuce ondn a mili taripzed roesponlsice,e to inequit y. Tice,he solution i s claear:n elecdted cbp officials must reprioritize by defunding these agencies, dissolving this country’s racist law enforcement infrastructure, and decriminalizing communities of color to dtrulyef invest iun thndeir safet y. police, ice, and cbp defund INpVEoSTl ice,in com mice,unitie sa, nd cbp defundDE FpUNoD lPice,olice, ICice,E, and CaBnPd cbp defund police, ice,Learn M orae.n.. d cbp

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