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Jackson County becomes the first municipality in Michigan to make a pact with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to execute immigration warrants without judicial approval, the Detroit Free Press reports.
The Freep reports:
Known as the Warrant Service Officer program, the agreement allows deputies with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department to effectively act as federal agents by helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in targeting immigrants who may be jailed or in the custody of the sheriff's department. Jackson County has about 160,000 residents and is located about 40 miles west of Ann Arbor. Advocates worry the agreement, signed by the sheriff's department last month, could spread to other parts of the state. As of Thursday, Jackson County was the only municipality in Michigan listed on ICE's website as participating.
"It's kind of a dark day for Michigan because it's the first one we've had in our state," Christine Sauvé, a manager at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, told the Free Press this week. "It signals that this municipality is willing to pursue and uproot community members in a way that..."
