Under the judgment, ICE has three months to “adopt and implement any policies, practices, trainings, and systems changes necessary to ensure consistent and effective compliance” with the judgment, Birotte wrote. From May 2015 to February 2016, of the 12,797 detainers issued in that period, 771 were lifted, according to ICE data. The judge’s decision affects any detainer requests issued by an ICE officer in the federal court system’s Central District of California. In fiscal year 2019, ICE had lodged more than 160,000 detainers with local law enforcement agencies, according to the agency. An ICE spokeswoman declined to comment on the judgment and would not say whether ICE had yet changed its practice of issuing detainer requests.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 07, 2020 19:18 UTC