New York illegal immigrants are massively sent to prison: what is happening

In New York, they began massively sending illegal immigrants to prisons. Even those who pose no threat to society are being arrested. The publication shares the details BuzzFeed.News.

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What's going on

Four years before U.S. President Donald Trump came to power, about half of low-risk immigrants arrested in New York who were considered low-risk were released from custody pending trial. Today, 96% of them, according to the new lawsuit, are in prison for up to three months.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now jails nearly every immigrant arrested in New York—even those who pose no threat. Prisoners are jailed for weeks or even months until they are brought to trial. This is stated in the recently published lawsuit.

What does Trump have to do with it?

It was after Donald Trump became president of America that the ICE began to use the new “risk assessment” algorithm and make stricter decisions regarding immigrants. The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and the Bronx Defenders, who filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Friday, February 28, came to this conclusion.

“This policy violates due process and has dramatically increased the number of immigrants detained,” said Amy Belcher of New York University.

An ICE spokeswoman said the agency is "not commenting on pending trials."

The data in the complaint covers only the New York region. However, at the same time, they highlight the changes that have occurred across the country after Trump took office and dramatically changed the policy of arresting and deporting illegal immigrants.

New algorithm in action

The fate of the arrested immigrants in America is decided by the ICE. Since 2013, the service has used a special risk classification assessment algorithm. With its help, it was determined how much freedom can be granted to an immigrant before the trial. It worked like this: an ICE employee entered into the system answers to 178 questions related to public relations, biographical and other data of the prisoner, after which the algorithm gave an answer. There were four possible answers: imprisonment, release on bail, release without bail or transfer of the decision to the head of the ICE department.

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