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Dozens of speakers urge Orange County supervisors to end voluntary ICE transfers at Truth Act hearing
Summary
At an annual Truth Act hearing, community advocates, nonprofit leaders and doctors urged the county to stop voluntary Orange County Sheriff Department transfers to ICE, citing data on hundreds of transfers, deaths in custody, and calls for greater transparency. The board received and filed the report and discussed limits of its authority over the elected sheriff.
At the board’s required annual hearing on the Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds Act (the Truth Act), more than a dozen community members, advocates and medical professionals urged the Orange County Board of Supervisors on March 10 to end voluntary transfers of people in county custody to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Logan Smith of the Harbor Institute for Immigrant and Economic Justice told the board OCSD continues to transfer people to ICE, most on a voluntary basis rather than pursuant to judicial warrants,…
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