GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Kent County Sheriff’s Department says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has chosen not to keep up a contract with the county that has been the subject of several protests.
Under the contract in question, the county jail has held inmates in connection to illegal immigration.
In a Sunday statement, Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young wrote that “ICE is not seeking to renew” the contract after it expires Sept. 30. She said ICE cited aJanuary change in procedureas its reason.
That new policy requires a warrant signed by a federal judge before her department will hold people for ICE. Previously, the jail would hold someone on a request from the agency without a court order. The change came after a U.S. citizen — a Marine veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress — waswrongfully detainedby ICE for three days in late 2018.
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