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Community advocates urge Orange County supervisors to end voluntary transfers to ICE during required Truth Act hearing
Summary
At a statutorily required public hearing on jail‑to‑ICE transfers, immigrant‑rights advocates and residents urged the Orange County Board of Supervisors to stop voluntary transfers to ICE, citing county transfer counts and deaths in ICE custody; the board received the report and heard questions but took no further action.
Thousands of residents, immigrant‑rights groups and health professionals appealed to the Orange County Board of Supervisors on March 24 to stop the county sheriff’s voluntary transfers of people in local custody to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The hearing, required under California’s Transparent Review of Unjust Transfers and Holds Act, drew 11 public speakers and multiple organizational representatives who described the transfers as dangerous, racially disproportionate and harmful to community trust. "At least 12 people, including two U.S. citizens, have died in ICE custody," said Logan Smith of the Harbor Institute…
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