The law allows federal immigration agents to capture the people who live illegally in the country, who were accused of burglary, theft, theft, shop theft, attack of a law enforcement officer or crime that leads to death or serious bodily harm.
Jose Antonio Ibarra, the man who was convicted of murder of Riley last year, has entered the United States illegally, the authorities say. He was quoted months before Rileys murder for shoplifting in Athens-Clarke County.
The Federal Government has long prioritized the deportation of immigrants who are convicted of violent crimes and other crimes. Adding charges in connection with the theft with or without conviction could increase the number of deportations. However, it is not clear how many other undocumented immigrants would catch the law or whether state and federal civil servants would have the resources to cope with them.
“We consider it a step to remove such tragedies in the future,” said Terry Norris, Managing Director of Georgia Sheriffs' Association. “We have to wait and see what could have these effects on the sheriffs in general and law enforcement in general.”
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Many shopping times are quoted without being brought into prisons in which their immigration status is checked, said Kuck so that they could still go away without flags.
And a federal court has decided that Georgia's shoplifting is too wide to qualify as a crime for federal purposes, and the question openly for legal disputes as to whether accused shop lovers can be held as part of the Riley Act Open sheet.
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House Bill 1105, a state governor Brian Kemp who was signed after Riley's death, requires the deputies of the sheriff to check the status of everyone they suspect illegally with US immigration and customs authorities in the country. This usually happens when people have no identification, said Norris. Georgia does not issue driver licenses for undocumented immigrants.
However, the Riley Act sheet demands that federal agents – not the local sheriffs – hold on to immigrants. They don't have to keep the sheriffs in Georgia unless ice exposes a prisoner, and those who are charged with offenses often combine before ice can do so, said Norris.
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“The sheriffs want people to be imprisoned in district prisons who are a danger to the public,” said Norris. “However, if you can get someone (from prison) out in a small crime, you want you to get out of this district prison if you can legally combine the costs of medical health (care) due to the costs of medical health.”
ICE -Häfainer ask the prisons to keep suspects for 48 hours. However, if federal agents do not pick up within this time, the suspects will be released.
HB 1105 also obliges that each sheriff office in Georgia includes partnerships with ice cream, which are known as 287 (g) agreements that enable MPs to issue their own immigration prisoners and to calculate documents for deportation cases. However, the administration of the former President Joe Biden did not allow new 287 (g) partnerships, and before Biden's presidency, ICE rejected ICE applications from Sheriff offices that did not have enough staff, said Norris.
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According to HB 1105, the offices of the sheriff in Georgia are obliged to exercise their immigration powers with 287 (g) agreements, Norris said. The Georgia Department of Corrections and the Floyd, Hall, Oconee, Polk and Whitfield County Sheriff's Offices currently have agreements. The Trump administration could agree.
HB 1105 also requires that Sheriff's offices publish quarterly reports on fees with which non -state members are exposed to.
In Gwinnett, the second largest district of the state, in which a quarter of residents were born abroad, 701 inmates were undocumented, and 165 of them were liability from July to September in September.
The sheriff Keybo Taylor, the sheriff of Gwinnett County, who ended a 287 (g) partnership on his first day of office, did not answer a request for a comment on the Riley Act sheet.
Some sheriffs have argued that prisons are already briefly occupied nationwide.
“I'm worried about the resources that the sheriffs have in a good day, without the sheets of Riley Act,” said Norris. “We are fighting to hire people across the state.”
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On the main page, the paperwork is time -consuming to start the deportation procedure, and the immigration courts are well covered, said Kuck. The Department of Homeland Security has estimated that the Riley Act sheet would cost 26.9 billion US dollars in the first year, including an increase of 110,000 ice cream bans.
“If you flood the system and not assign resources or personnel, mainly because it does not exist at the moment, how is the system no longer changing than reducing things?” Said Kuck.
The new law, which is more based on charges than on charges than on convictions, has triggered the concerns about the proper procedures. Kuck said there were precedent that restricts the proper process rights of the proper procedures, but the Riley Act Laken allows deportations that result from accusations that would not be on trial.
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“There will be a lot of profil creation here,” he said.
Patrick Labat, Sheriff of Fulton County, did not answer when he was asked about the Riley Act sheet.
“We will comply with all laws that prescribe reporting and detention,” said a spokesman.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
