ALERTA, a Hispanic-American advocacy group, has invited officials to talk about the program for the second time in seven months. The meeting was organized in hopes of building a partnership where Latinos could better work with local government and law enforcement, said Vanessa Hernandez, ALERTA’s president.
past 11 months, Boone County Jail officials have taken part in a federal illegal-immigration initiative that allows officials to alert Immigration and Customs Enforcement when a foreign-born suspect is charged and booked into the jail. Once the inmate has been tried and sentenced, ICE then determines whether the inmate should be deported
Last year, ALERTA called its first meeting with officials after stories of discrimination and concerns of racial profiling arose. Those tensions at the first meeting are what ALERTA’s trying to get past,
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