[1]Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms, photo, City of Atlanta
“Civil offenses do not warrant criminal consequences – and no one should be jailed solely because they seek the American Dream,” – Atlanta Mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Oh, mayor, you should stop taking goofy and intentionally false points from the anti-borders crazies you put on your advisory board [2]. Actually, federal law (8 USC 1325 [3]) says illegal entry (or “improper entry”) to the US carries criminal penalties (fines and jail or prison time), in addition to civil penalties and immigration consequences (deportation and bars from future entry). More here. [4]
Mayor: Atlanta to stop holding federal detainees in its jail
ATLANTA
Atlanta’s city jail will no longer accept immigrants detained by federal officials, the mayor announced Thursday, saying it was the best way to demonstrate her administration’s opposition to current “inhumane” national immigration policies.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed an executive order directing the Atlanta City Detention Center to stop accepting detainees of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The jail had been receiving the detainees under an agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service.
The order directs Atlanta’s corrections chief to formally request that ICE transfer all detainees as soon as possible.
“As we work to achieve our vision of an Atlanta that is welcoming and inclusive, with equal opportunity for all, it is untenable for our city to be complicit in the inhumane immigration policies that have led to the separation of hundreds of families at the United States southern border,” Bottoms said.
“Civil offenses do not warrant criminal consequences – and no one should be jailed solely because they seek the American Dream,” she added.
U.S. Rep. and civil rights icon John Lewis applauded Bottoms’ action, remarking in a statement that… Read the rest here. [5]
[6]