Berkeley nonprofit program director Daniel Maher faces deportation
Daniel Maher, a program director at a Berkeley nonprofit organization, faces possible deportation because of his involvement in a robbery more than two decades ago.
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Tag Archives: ICE
Berkeley City Council decides to stop local detainment of undocumented immigrants
The Berkeley City Council revoked a policy requiring the Berkeley Police Department to hold undocumented immigrants in the local jail by request of the federal government at its Tuesday meeting.
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Berkeley City Council approves mutual aid agreement
The Berkeley City Council adopted the majority of the policies regarding the city’s set of mutual aid agreements with outside law enforcement agencies at their meeting Tuesday night.
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Improve local policing programs
End association with secure communities
Imagine yourself picked up by the Berkeley police on a minor matter. You’re quickly cleared for release, but the cops see that you were once suspected — NOT CONVICTED — of a more serious offense.
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State senate passes bill limiting obligation to detain immigrants
Participation in ICE's Secure Communities program would become optional
The TRUST Act would make it easier for state law enforcement agencies to opt out of a program requiring them to detain immigrants who have not committed serious crimes for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Federal immigration program raises concerns in community
In November, former UC Berkeley graduate student Pancho Ramos Stierle was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following his arrest at a raid on the Occupy Oakland encampment. Stierle came to the United States with a student visa to pursue his Ph.D in astrophysics at UC Berkeley
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