Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, March 13, 2017.
Immigration officials are now detaining deportees in Kankakee County
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Chicago have been holding deportees at the Kankakee County Detention Center before they are sent to Mexico. Until March 3 immigrants being deported to Mexico were held in suburban Broadview, which is closer to Chicago than the facility in Kankakee County. The change will “make better use of ICE resources,” an ICE spokeswoman told WBEZ. Immigration activists are upset about the agency’s lack of transparency regarding the move, and about the fact that it will now be more difficult for many families to visit their relatives before deportation. [Associated Press via U.S. News & World Report] [WBEZ]
Gerard Alessandrini
