The Alaska House Judiciary Committee will convene at 1 pm on June 20 to hear from opponents of the Alaska Department of Corrections contract allowing it to hold federal immigration detainees inside Alaska correctional institutions.
The hearing will feature invitation-only testimony from individuals and organizations who are anti-ICE in general, including the ACLU, which was one of the sponsors of the No Kings protests across the nation on Saturday.
The committee will receive testimony from the immigration attorney Nicolas Olano of Nations Law Group, the Alaska Civil Liberties Union’s Cindy Woods, and representatives from the Civil Division of the Alaska Department of Law. House Democrats are clearly intending to re-elevate this into the news cycle. On June 9, the Party for Socialism and Liberation made noise about the contract by staging a protest march to the Anchorage Correctional Complex.
The testimony is expected to examine legal, humanitarian, and financial implications of Alaska’s arrangement with the federal immigration agency, which, under President Donald Trump, is treating border law as enforceable, rather than merely a suggestion, as it as under President Joe Biden. Alaska is holding about 40 known illegal immigration detainees under an agreement with ICE at the state-run Anchorage Correctional Complex.
Committee Chair Rep. Andrew Gray, who called for the hearing, is an Anchorage Democrat. The hearing will be held at the Anchorage Legislative Information Offices at 1 pm in the Denali Room.
So, the communists at the ACLU and the Democrats in the Legislature are now working through government channels of secrecy to protect the criminals and illegal aliens. THIS is fascism.
ChrissyB–no secrecy involved. The hearing will be televised live on Gavel Alaska at and livestreamed on the House Judiciary Committee’s website
So they’ve been happy to take the Feds money in exchange for the promise to have availability and now that the Feds want to make use of the availability they’ve been paying for they are balking at the idea and want to review it. I’m not sure that these super-wokesters understand the optics they are putting out there, but I sure hope they keep it up and wake the silent majority!
It is our responsibility to assist in detaining felons, it is ICE’s responsibility to provide the felony warrants. Where is the transparency, show us the receipts
They should be returned the same way they came in, the Mexican border.
If the illegal aliens are here illegally, then there is no need for a warrant. Get this through your thick skull. Doesn’t matter how long they’ve been here. They broke the law, they don’t have a green card, they’re not citizens, they have to go. ESPECIALLY if they’ve broken the law.
Oh please another propaganda show courtesy of another democrat.
Reminds me of the “homeless emergency” meeting with Berkowitz. Every non-profit and other related entity was there to testify at length and then at the end of the meeting the public got ONE speaker for 3 minutes. Andrew Gray is not interested in “fact finding” or hearing from the public. Waste of time!
The committee isn’t solely Rep. Gray there are hardline Republicans such as Rep. Vance on the judiciary committee who will also have ample opportunity to ask questions. The purpose of the meeting is fact finding – I presume we will learn that these detainees are indeed at least mostly criminals (likely felons) and that they are being prepped for deportation. As it stands we don’t really know much of anything about them – least of all who is responsible for their caretaking