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Residents urge Carver County commissioners to oppose any use of jail beds by ICE
Summary
Dozens of residents told the Carver County Board during public comment they oppose the sheriff renting jail beds to ICE, citing eyewitness accounts from a Chanhassen raid, legal liability, family separations, and economic harm; speakers asked the board to adopt a resolution opposing any sheriff-only contract.
Dozens of residents and community leaders pressed the Carver County Board of Commissioners during public comment to oppose any agreement allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use county jail beds.
At the start of the meeting Monique LaCroix, a District 4 resident of Chaska, asked commissioners to oppose “any agreement that uses Carver County resources to house ICE detainees,” saying the sheriff’s office is in the midst of a staffing crisis and that the county would shoulder downstream social-service costs when families are separated. “When the sheriff partners with ICE to detain and deport local residents, he is creating a downstream fiscal crisis that we taxpayers have to pay for,” LaCroix said.
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