The federal law of Laks Riley was the first law of President Donald Trump in his second term. It expands the scope of crimes that a person lives in the United States could use without legal status in immigration and in the deportation procedure.
Last year, the state politicians in Georgia also designed laws in Riley's names after the nursing student on the University of Georgia campus was murdered by a Venezuelan migrant who went to the USA illegally. He had once been caught with shop theft, but was released.
“In Georgia, the people of this state await the people we represent that we do something,” said Republican representative Jesse Petrea before the legislator last year. “I think that's a good way to do that.”
Georgia's law obliges the local law enforcement authorities to work with the federal immigration agents in order to enforce the law of immigration through a 287G partnership: a federal program that put the local law enforcement authorities in accordance with some federal immigration responsibility in prisons. For this purpose, databases from the Department of Homeland Security can be used for immigration status, the request of an immigration and customs authorities to ask the agency whether they want to take immigration fees for an unauthorized migrant, and sometimes the person from prison to transport it into the ice.
Without additional financing for law enforcement, it can only be implemented slowly.
“The law mandates that you ask for participation. The law does not stipulate that they participate, ”said Terry Norris, executive director of Georgia Sheriff's Association. He said the association worked together with 142 sheriffs throughout the state to comply with the new law of Georgia, including the request from the 287G partnership.
Georgia has 159 counties, but some of these counties share a sheriff because there is a lack of resources.
“We have created a template, a small letter to two lines to ICE, in which I am Sheriff and so from County so-and-so. Please know that I am interested in the 287G program, ”said Norris.
He said that no district was approved for the program last year, with ICE said that the Sheriffs did not have enough resources, as was required by the 287G program.
An ICE spokesman did not answer a request for a comment.
“Georgia Sheriffs are like almost every other agency in the whole country,” he said. “We are very difficult to hire MPs and prison attendants.”
Norris said the lack of personnel was a problem, and that is one thing you need to keep 287g. Norris and his association hope for more state funds to achieve this. He said that the district taxpayers' dollars were the costs for the Sheriff's office and prison, including medical care, mental health and food.
A version of the 287G contract trains the law enforcement agencies, such as the use of federal databases to check immigration status, and obliges the civil servants to check whether ICE would like to pursue an immigration case. From here, ICE can ask the officials to keep a person for 48 hours so that they can take their skills into immigration or ice cream to take immigration measures.
According to ICE, there are only six 287g programs in Georgia. This number has not changed since the law of last year, but the law requires an annual application.
The local law enforcement agencies usually do not carry out the immigration status of the people who arrest them, said Emily Davis, a lawyer who teaches immigration rights at Emory University.
“It is very expensive for local governments to do this type of immigration work, and they are usually not familiar with the immigration status and the Immigration Act to make this determination,” she said.
Charles Kuck, immigration lawyer at Atlanta, said the financing would also be an obstacle to the federal law of Laken Riley.
“ICE warned the congress because they thought about this calculation that they had neither the funds nor the resources to actually carry out this calculation, and two if they wanted this to need about 23 billion US dollars,” said Kuck.
The Federal Law obliges the Ministry of Homeland Security to issue a prisoner about non-I-State members who are attacking due to theft, shop theft, burglary, violence or death.
“In the broadest context and the quotes in the law that applies to the law, everyone who is not a citizen of the United States seems to be forced by ice until he has a hearing before an immigration court. It is written that wide, ”said Kuck. He said this could include visa holders and constant residents.
Davis, the professor of emory law, said that the law of Georgia is more likely to be more people in immigration procedures than the Riley Act sheet, since the crime defined in the federal law is closer than that of Georgia.
“Every crime, even if it is a traffic offense that is considered a crime in Georgia, could trigger an ice cream authority,” she said.
Without the estimated billions in financing, Davis said that it has to be seen how effective the laws will be.
