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The Denver Post editorial: Mayor Michael Hancock’s jail sentencing reforms send a better message to immigrants

By 05/08/2017 | updated 9 years ago

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s plan to reform low-level jail sentences, and in doing so protect immigrants from deportation, makes a lot of sense and has a lot of heart.

The new sentencing structures would alert Immigration and Customs Enforcement to truly bad actors, but would avoid what amounts to reckless notification of federal officials when immigrants commit low-level violations that pose little threat to overall public safety. The new sentences would also add a hate-crime enhancer.

Hancock’s ideas align with the Obama administration’s more humane stances on deportation that continued a decades’ long tolerance of undocumented immigrants who stayed off law enforcement’s radar screen.

Read more at The Denver Post.

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