States Lead the Way in Banning Immigration Detention Centers

 Immigration Impact - State governments are leading the way on eliminating a blemish from their communities—immigration detention centers... Following the lead of states like New Jersey and Illinois, New Mexico and Colorado have bills pending that would drastically decrease immigration detention, with the hope that this would lead to an end of immigrant detention altogether in their states. Ending immigrant detention by attacking it at the state level is a relatively new strategy by immigrant rights organizations. California was the first to enact a ban on some immigration detention centers in 2017.