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Residents and nonprofits urge oversight, oppose Marathon County’s 287(g) jail agreement
Summary
Four public-comment speakers told the Public Safety Committee they oppose the sheriff’s recently signed 287(g) jail enforcement agreement with ICE, arguing it will deter immigrants from seeking services and reporting crime and could expose the county to unreimbursed litigation costs.
Public concern about Marathon County’s newly signed 287(g) jail enforcement agreement dominated the public-comment period of the county’s Public Safety Committee meeting on Nov. 11.
Donna Ambrose, director of the Neighbors Place food pantry, told the committee that cooperation between local law enforcement and ICE creates fear in immigrant communities. “When local law enforcement works with ICE to report anyone in jail without documentation, even for the smallest offenses, it creates fear, and that fear keeps families from coming to us for food and basic needs,”…
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