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Residents urge Butler County commissioners to end ICE detainee contract during public comment
Summary
Multiple residents and community leaders used the county's public-comment period to urge the Board of Commissioners to end Butler County's contract that allows ICE to transfer detainees into county custody, citing legal and humanitarian concerns and presenting data on increased arrests and deportations.
Dozens of residents urged the Butler County Board of Commissioners on April 14 to end the county’s contract that allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement to transfer detainees into county custody.
At the start of the public-comment period, Linda Snow Griffin of Fairfield said she found the contract "unethical and immoral" and urged the county to limit any collaboration to the narrow set of cases county residents were originally told would be handled. "If it is administered within the law structure of the law, originally... we were repeatedly told... ICE was going to go after the worst of the worst," Griffin said, adding she expects arrests to be legitimate and for…
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