| for The Washington Post
In an article appearing on November 5, Washington Post reporter Pamela Constable looks at the cruel realities of the non-U.S. citizens who are released early from prison and are immediately sent into deportation proceedings.
In the article, CAIR Coalition’s legal director, Heidi Altman, discusses ICE’s “enforcement priorities”:
Heidi Altman, legal director for the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, said ICE is supposed to focus on deporting immigrants who are “enforcement priorities” and whose “removal is in the federal interest.”
Among those in the mass release group, she said, there are probably “long-term U.S. residents who are leaving behind families they could be supporting” and whose deportation “is not in our interests. ICE needs to be asking those questions and making those individual determinations.”
