Sheriffs say legal issues hinder ICE cooperation
LOS ANGELES — Adam Christianson makes no bones about helping federal immigration agents nab people for deportation.
The three-term sheriff of Stanislaus County, east of the Bay Area, gives agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement unfettered access to his jails, where they interview inmates and scroll through computer databases. The information allows the agents to find and take custody of people they suspect of living in the country illegally before they are released from jail.
There is a line, however, Christianson won't cross.
ICE officials routinely ask local jailers and state prison wardens to keep inmates behind bars for up to two days longer than they would otherwise be locked up. Christianson refuses to honor the requests — detainers in ICE parlance.
He is hardly alone. None of the sheriffs in California's 58 counties are willing to hold inmates past their release dates for ICE, the Los Angeles Times has found.
The refusal to comply has drawn fire from the Trump administration, which sees detainers as a key component to carrying out its aggressive plan to find and remove millions of people living in the country illegally.
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