Medrano v. Jenkins
- Filed: 07/10/2020
- Status: Active
- Court: U.S. District Court of Maryland
- Latest Update: Jul 11, 2019
Defending her constitutional right to due process and to be protected against unlawful search and seizure, Sara Medrano, a Latina Frederick County resident, is challenging racial profiling and illegal detention she endured from two Frederick County sheriff’s deputies who tried to hold her for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over a “broken” tail light that turned out to be working just fine. Ms. Medrano joined with the Resources for Immigrant Support and Empowerment (RISE) Coalition of Western Maryland to bring a lawsuit against Frederick County Sheriff Chuck Jenkins and other Frederick officials seeking to stop unconstitutional policing against Latinx people.
Seven Truths Surrounding 287(g) Programs
Currently, three Maryland counties – Frederick, Cecil and Harford County – are actively using local police agencies to target and cage immigrants for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of the 287(g) program. The 287(g) program deputizes local police as federal ICE agents who receive minimal training and are incentivized to use racial profiling tactics against mostly Black and Brown immigrants. The belief by some that programs like this keep communities safe stem from several myths. Let’s set the record straight.
La verdad de los programas 287(g)
Actualmente, tres condados de Maryland – Frederick, Cecil y Harford – están utilizando activamente las agencias de policía locales como parte del programa 287(g) para atacar y enjaular a inmigrantes para Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de los Estados Unidos. El programa 287(g) diputara a la policía local como agentes federales de ICE. Los oficiales locales reciben entrenamiento mínimo y se les incentiva a usar tácticas de racismo contra inmigrantes, quienes son mayormente personas negras y morenas. La creencia de algunas personas es que programas como este mantienen a las comunidades seguras. Esto proviene de varios mitos. Vamos a dejar las cosas claras.
Opinion: Maryland police must stop playing ICE
Sara Medrano, a Latina grandmother and Frederick County resident, was driving her daughter and two grandchildren to pick up laundry detergent on her way to work when a Frederick County sheriff’s deputy pulled her over, purportedly for a “broken” taillight — that was working just fine — and detained her. In Medrano’s words: “I was so scared thinking that this stop would be the last moment I would have with my grandchildren and my daughter.”
By Nick Taichi Steiner
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