A new report from the University at Buffalo’s Human Rights Center highlights the risks migrants face when local police cooperate with ICE. The report’s authors support a proposed state law forbidding that cooperation.
A panel of law students and advocates presented the report Wednesday. Photo by J. Dale Shoemaker.
A handful of local law enforcement agencies turn migrants they encounter over to federal immigration agencies like the U.S. Border Patrol — a practice some now say should end.
In a report released Wednesday, professors and graduate students with the Buffalo Human Rights Center — part of the University at Buffalo’s law school — detailed the cooperation between local and federal agencies, criticized the practice and called on state lawmakers to ban it…