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Illinois Counties Fail in Challenge to State Statutory Ban on ICE Detention Contracts

Loaded on July 15, 2022 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News July, 2022, page 52
Filed under: Detention - Generally, Immigration Detention. Location: Illinois.

by Matt Clarke

In a decision handed down on December 6, 2021, a federal court in Illinois decided that the Constitution’s proscription against the federal government’s efforts to “commandeer” functions that rightfully belong to individual states outweighs the “supremacy clause” of Article VI, which makes federal law “the …

 

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