Anytime someone is booked into a county jail for a crime in the U.S.,
his or her fingerprints are automatically sent to federal authorities.
If the suspect happens to be an undocumented immigrant, what happens
next could depend on where the jail is located.
Immigration and
Customs Enforcement often asks jails to hold undocumented people, so
federal agents can pick them up and put them into deportation
proceedings.
Most counties comply with those detainer requests. And the Trump
administration has been building on these partnerships with local law
enforcement in friendlier jurisdictions.
But across America,
so-called sanctuary cities and states have taken a stand against the
administration's immigration crackdown. They say it's not their job to
enforce immigration law, and they don't comply with requests.
Source: Yahoo News
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