Requires notification to ICE and mandates that ICE shall take custody of aliens convicted of specified serious crimes, replacing permissive language with mandatory language, so more immigration enforcement.
the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement shall, following notification under § 19.2-294.2, take physical custody of and responsibility for any alien convicted of any (i) felony offense involving murder, rape, robbery, burglary, larceny, extortion, or abduction
Authorizes state/local officials to enter into agreements with ICE (including reimbursement) to retain custody of such aliens until deportation or transfer, expanding options for state involvement in immigration detention.
The director, sheriff or other official in charge of the facility in which such alien is incarcerated may enter into an agreement, which includes provisions relating to reimbursement, with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to retain custody or supervision of such alien until he is deported or until other mutually satisfactory arrangements are made to transfer custody of such alien to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill updates § 53.1-220.1 by replacing references to the old Immigration and Naturalization Service with ICE, changes permissive 'may' language to mandatory 'shall' for ICE taking custody after notification of aliens convicted of listed serious felonies (murder, rape, etc., plus sexual assault and drug felonies), and retains/expands authority for state facilities to contract with ICE for continued custody until deportation. These changes expand state-federal cooperation and state role in immigration detention/transport for these cases; no other listed topics are substantively addressed.
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