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HB9 ends state contracts with ICE; lawmakers say private detention remains a challenge
Summary
At a Corrales forum lawmakers described House Bill 9’s restriction on state ICE contracts and on law‑enforcement contracts facilitating federal immigration detention, and they outlined transition funding for facilities affected while warning privately financed centers may continue.
Residents pressed officials about how state policy could restrict immigration detention after the Legislature passed House Bill 9. At the meeting Rep. Kathleen Cates and Sen. Cindy Nava said HB9 makes it unlawful for the state to enter contracts with ICE and, separately, forbids some local law‑enforcement contracting arrangements that previously enabled ICE detention.
"It did not close detention centers," Rep. Cates said, explaining that HB9 prohibits state and certain law‑enforcement contracts with ICE but cannot directly stop privately funded…
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