Despite their liberal politics, Connecticut and California are sharing immigrant data with ICE

On September 22nd, 2016, the federal government’s Enforcement and Removal Office (ERO) — a subset of ICE and the country’s primary deportation force — published a disclosure regarding a deal it was securing with the state of Connecticut to allow ICE officials to access the state's police database. In the filing, the immigration agency was blunt in addressing the critical importance of the state data to ICE’s deportation officers.
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