Georgia town's novel strategy to fight ICE jail plan impresses legal experts

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8. Why, exactly, do people at the effect of civil laws have to be incarcerated at all?

The whole idea of detention, and then deportation to inhumane locations is anathema to the laws that are being promulgated as the reason for said consequences.

Very few of the incarcerated people have commited any criminal offense.
They had made their locations known to ICE as required.
They were attending immigration interviews.
They had obtained TINs to pay unrecoverable SSA and medicare deductions, plus local and federal taxes.
They were paying rent (or mortgages) in their houses.

The whole country is actually better off leaving them where they were. Employes, landlords, family, and the immigrant would all be better off. Giving them 30 days notice of a change in status, so they could arrange their affairs, would be far more humane, than abrupt abduction and disappearance.