The FAIR Take - Two Local Governments Show Very Different Paths on Housing Immigration Detainees
June 16, 2018

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests illegal aliens, they have to house (“detain”) them somewhere while they’re in deportation proceedings. In some cases, it’s in facilities actually owned and run by ICE or other federal agencies, but more commonly it’s under contract, either with private companies or frequently with local jails.