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Civil rights groups demand immigration agents stop impersonating police officers

by aclu news idVer:80f6f8e4c9237de19c91e514c1f08 Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 at 5:07 PM

Civil rights groups demand immigration agents stop impersonating police officers

https://www.aclusocal.org/en/press-releases/civil-rights-groups-demand-immigration-agents-stop-impersonating-police-officers

Civil rights groups demand immigration agents stop impersonating police officers

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ACLU SoCal Communications & Media Advocacy, (213) 977-5252,

communications@aclusocal.org (mailto:communications@aclusocal.org)

February 23, 2017

LOS ANGELES - The ACLU Foundation of Southern California and a

coalition of advocacy groups today sent a letter to Los Angeles Police

Department Chief Charlie Beck, Mayor Eric Garcetti and city council

members, demanding that they take steps to prevent Immigration and

Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers from impersonating police officers

to gain access to homes and businesses in Los Angeles.

The deception critically endangers LAPD policies that seek to assure

immigrant community members they can report crimes and assist police

investigations without fear of deportation. These policies have been

vital in furthering public safety.

ICE permits its agents to misrepresent themselves as police officers,

probation officers, religious workers and other officials to gain

community members’ permission to enter homes without warrants. The

ruse has also been used to get individuals to volunteer information

they might not otherwise divulge.

"ICE’s impersonations exploit the trust that LAPD has sought to build

with immigrant community members," said Michael Kaufman, Sullivan &

Cromwell Access to Justice Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Southern

California. "It is critical that city leaders take a stand against

ICE’s deceptive practices, particularly in light of the Trump

administration’s intent to build a mass deportation dragnet."

The letter, which provides accounts of several incidents of the

deceptive practice, explains that immigrant community members may be

more reticent to cooperate with LAPD officers in the future because

they will have no way to discern whether officers who say they are

"police" are LAPD or ICE.

The ruse undermines Special Order 40, a long-standing LAPD policy of

not taking actions to identify an individual's immigration status. The

policy seeks to assure community members that their cooperation with

police investigations will not lead to their deportations.

In the past ICE has recognized that its impersonation tactics can harm

the groups they pretend to represent. ICE's stated policy is to obtain

the permission "of an executive [of the law enforcement agency] with

the authority to grant permission for the impersonation."

The letter issued today strongly urges that permission be denied. It

calls upon the LAPD to expressly refuse ICE the right to impersonate

police officers. Furthermore, it demands that ICE agents wear uniforms

with clear agency identification when carrying out actions in Los

Angeles.

The letter also calls for a meeting to educate community members on

how to identify legitimate LAPD officers.

In addition to the ACLU SoCal, the letter was signed by Asian

Americans Advancing Justice—Los Angeles; CARECEN-LA; The Center for

Popular Democracy; Immigrant Defenders Law Center; Korean American

Coalition; LAANE; Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic; National Day Labor

Organizing Network; National Immigration Law Center; National Lawyers

Guild—Los Angeles; Public Counsel; Restaurant Opportunities Center of

Los Angeles; SEIU-UHW; UFCW Local 770; United Union of Roofers,

Waterproofers & Allied Workers, Local 36.
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