Testimony on Five Bills Before the Committee on the Judiciary & Public Safety
Statement of Elizabeth Wilkins
Senior Counsel for Policy
Statement of Elizabeth Wilkins
Senior Counsel for Policy
El fiscal general Karl A. Racine envió una carta al Director Interino del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de los Estados Unidos (ICE), Ronald D. Vitiello, mediante la que exigía respuestas sobre las denuncias locales de numerosos residentes del Distrito que indican que las comunidades predominantemente latinas están siendo puestas bajo la custodia del ICE.
Attorney General Karl A. Racine sent a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Ronald D. Vitiello demanding answers about local reports of a dozen District residents in predominantly Latino communities being taken into ICE custody.
Attorney General Karl A. Racine today joined a coalition of 15 state attorneys general in a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s policy of separating families crossing the nation’s southern border.
Attorney General Karl A. Racine, along with his counterparts from California and Massachusetts, today led a group of 17 state attorneys general in an effort to stop the Trump Administration from withdrawing protections for hundreds of thousands of people from El Salvador, Haiti, and Honduras.
Today, Attorney General Karl A. Racine called on United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to end the cruel and illegal attacks on children and families lawfully seeking asylum in the United States as they seek protection from domestic, sexual and gang violence.
Attorney General Karl A. Racine is leading a coalition of nine states, including the District, in filing a friend-of-the-court brief defending California’s right to set its own public-safety policies against a challenge from United States Attorney General Jefferson B. Sessions III.