ICE aims to lower US immigration detention standards to encourage more sheriffs to aid crackdown

It is well-known that the Trump administration seeks to enlist the assistance of state and local governments.  In that vein, Ted Hesson for Reuters reports that the Trump administration aims to lower its existing detention standards to encourage more U.S. sheriffs to provide jail space to detain immigrants, Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said yesterday at an annual meeting of the National Sheriffs’ Association in Washington, D.C.  He said that the administration was working to allow U.S. sheriffs to detain migrants in their jails using their state-level standards instead of more rigorous U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) guidelines and to reduce the number of federal inspections.

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