STOP DEPORTATIONS

of deportations went through jails at the end of the last Trump Administration. Most were run by sheriffs.

47%

Sheriffs have power to:

  1. Detain people for immigration authorities

  2. Sign agreements to act as immigration agents

  3. Rent jail beds to immigration authorities

People have been protecting their communities by curbing the role of sheriffs in immigration enforcement for decades.

You can too.

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Through organizing and policy change, organizers have used the democratic process to convince hundreds of sheriffs to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities. This document lays out a set of demands that communities can make to keep sheriffs out of the mass deportation machine, and collects examples of strategies that people can learn from.