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Cumberland County delays final action on request to bar ICE detainees after extended public debate
Summary
After hours of public testimony and commissioner debate, the Board of Commissioners amended a proposal to ask the county manager to seek an amendment to the U.S. Marshals jail contract excluding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees, then agreed to pause final action for 30 days for legal and financial follow-up.
Cumberland County commissioners spent more than two hours on a high-profile agenda item concerning immigration enforcement before voting to pause the issue for further review.
The matter brought forward was a request to authorize the county manager to notify the U.S. Marshals Service that the county wishes to amend the Marshals'operated jail contract so that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees would be excluded from use of the county jail. The original wording on the agenda also included language about relinquishing federal reimbursement for ICE detainees; commissioners amended that language during the meeting.
The meeting included a lengthy public-comment period in which dozens of residents, faith leaders, immigrant-rights advocates, academics and…
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