Breaking up families.
Via Fox News:
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement ripped a California county on Monday for scrapping a contract to house illegal detainees in a correctional facility ahead of deportation, suggesting the move could backfire and ultimately hurt immigrant families.
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted last week to cancel a five-year-old contract the county had with the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, which allotted nearly $6 million a year in federal funds to the county sheriff’s department to help run the facilities.
“The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors’ decision to not renew a contract housing ICE detainees at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center will negatively impact local ICE operations; however, the impact will be greater for those who have been detained at the facility,” an ICE spokeswoman said in a statement to Fox News on Monday.
“Now, instead of being housed close to family members or local attorneys, ICE may have to depend on its national system of detention bed space to place those detainees in locations farther away from Sacramento, reducing the opportunities for in-person family visitation and attorney coordination,” the spokeswoman added.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department is currently holding 86 undocumented detainees, according to the sheriff’s office. The majority of those detainees reportedly have a criminal record.