The Police and Immigration: New York’s Experience

The Police and Immigration: New York’s Experience

“ The New York City Bar Association has also argued that the use of immigration detainers lowers the rate of participation in the city’s alternative-to-incarceration programs because judges and prosecutors are quick to assume that immigrants subject to detainers are ineligible for such programs. These alternative programs reduce recidivism and lower costs to the criminal justice system. ”

Wall Street Journal
May 19 th, 2010