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Resident urges Kenosha County to seek oversight and cost reports on sheriff's 287(g) ICE agreement
Summary
At a Kenosha County committee meeting, resident Jim Kennedy urged the board to narrow and report on a 287(g) jail-enforcement agreement with ICE and requested a list of offenses the sheriff considers "violent," regular public reports on detainers and transfers, and detailed county cost accounting for ICE-related detention days.
Jim Kennedy, a Kenosha resident, urged the county committee to press for greater transparency and fiscal reporting on a jail-enforcement 287(g) agreement the Kenosha County sheriff signed with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"This jail enforcement model agreement obligates Kenosha County to help ICE carry out aspects of their immigrant roundup agenda," Kennedy told the committee, arguing the agreement deputizes selected county employees to operate under ICE supervision and could expand transfers to ICE custody beyond the "violent offenders" the sheriff has described.
Kennedy said national detention statistics show only a small share of people in ICE custody have…
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