A bipartisan group of representatives in Congress has introduced legislation that would, for two years, prohibit ICE from arresting most Iraqis with deportation orders while they bring their cases to court
Most of the arrested Iraqis, having come to the United States as refugees or via other official channels, were rendered deportable by criminal convictions here. But while their offenses run the gamut—from felonious assault to nonviolent drug offenses —Rebecca Adducci, director of ICE’s Detroit field office,at the time as an effort “to address the very real public safety threat represented by the criminal aliens arrested.
As such, ICE kept those it had picked up in detention, even when a court had sided with the ACLU in staying their deportation. Hamama, for instance, wasn’t granted a bond hearing until he had spent nearly eight months in a county jail, while about 120 other Iraqis were locked up for a year and a half before aAdvocates and Iraqi-Americans argue that ICE’s public-threat charge is unfounded and even prejudiced, since the deportable Iraqis served their time just like U.S.
“I made a mistake,” said Hamama, whose children were all born in Michigan. “But honestly, give me an opportunity to bring my kids up in this country.” In a statement sent to POLITICO, Adducci described the Sixth Circuit’s decision to lift the injunction on deportations to Iraq as “a decisive victory further vindicating ICE’s efforts to remove these aliens, many of whom had criminal convictions.”its final decision earlier this year, federal lawmakers representing Iraqi communities were ready.
Levin teamed up with Representative John Moolenaar, a Michigan Republican, and after sending letters to ICE, the
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