Prison in Butler County can again take ice prisoners starting next week

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Hamilton, Ohio (Fox19) – Butler County has completed an agreement to withhold US detainees for immigration and customs execution (ICE) in its prison and can start as soon as next week.

The sheriff of Butler County, Richard Jones, told Fox19, earlier this month, the prison completed all the necessary federal inspections as part of the approval process.

On Tuesday, the County Commission approved a modification of the current prison contract with the US Marshals service to host the federal prisoners who add the ICE prisoners on Wednesday, March 5th.

Butler County will receive $ 68 a day to host ice prisoners, plus $ 36 per hour to transport them to places such as the Court for hearings or to airports, according to a specimen of the resolution.

“I have hundreds of beds ready and I can come here as Motel 6, we will leave the light for you and leave a piece of chocolate on the pillow before being kicked out of the country,” Sheriff Jones has recently told FOX19 now.

The Butler County Prison will become one of the two tri-state prisons, which can host immigrants in ICE and third in Ohio, according to Ice’s Web site. The other two prisons in Ohio are in Chardon and Tifton.

There are three in Kentucky, including the prison in Boone County, which is the only full -time ice detention center in the state of BlueGrass.

A single prison in Indiana houses immigrants in ice custody and is located about 170 miles away from Cincinnati in Brazil (Clay County).

The prison in Butler County had an ice contract for years, but Sheriff Jones concluded when President Joe Biden entered 2021.

At that time, the sheriff said he had “fired” the ice before the prison was “fired first” by the Biden Administration.

He said that it opposed Biden’s border policy, appointing it in essence no policy with an alarming number of illegals that turn across the border together with an unprecedented amount of drugs.

Moreover, the sheriff said that he is afraid that the Biden administration will order the prison to issue their ice prisoners because of the legal techniques and that he will have to release them in Butler County.

But everything that changed when Donald Trump was re -elected president last year, after promising, among many things, to stop illegal immigration with mass deportations and stricter border policies.

The sheriff and his staff began to drain to be re-ackful for ice prisoners.

As soon as Trump was sworn in last month, ice raids began quickly in places like New York and Northern Ohio.

While one has not happened yet in the trial, the prison in Butler County is now ready and is waiting.

To ensure that this is clear, the sheriff put back a controversial, bright yellow sign, which he used years ago, but took off after the prison stopped taking ice prisoners.

The sign says “illegal aliens here”, with an arrow facing prison.

Determined an almost immediately petition to get him out with 4,562 signatures starting on Wednesday morning.

Sheriff Jones, who just won the sixth term in office – the third unposted time – was not phase.

He even posted a link to the petition on his social pages, writing: “The sheriff is always ready to help a cause! In any case, sign the petition! Sheriff is here to help! “

The renewed partnership of Butler County with ICE comes in strong contrast to other areas such as Cincinnati, where Mayor Aftab Pureval confirmed last month at Fox19, now Cincinnati City Police Department will not cooperate with ICE agents to eliminate illegal immigrants.

He also told Fox19 now on January 29:

• “There is no role for the municipalities in the federal application of immigration,” and added “we will follow the law”.
• “For now, there have been no ice raids in Cincinnati, none, despite the rumors and theories of conspiracy, but we are prepared. If there is an ice attack in our community, we can do nothing to prevent this based on the federal law, but there are things we can do to support the community and alleviate the damage caused by these raids and we work to do this thing. “

Who has determined to write ACLU from Ohio A post on his Facebook page: “We are glad to see that Mayor Aftab Pureal has reversed the course and is now in the highlight that the Cincinnati police will not help ICE agents with mass deportations. Local governments cannot be obliged to carry out the political agenda of the Trump administration. “

Cincinnati was a Sanctuary City Since 2017, Trump’s first year of the first term as president, when there was an immigration repression.

“We value the population of immigrants”, ” said police chief at that time, Eliot Isaac. “The Cincinnati Police Department deals with doing everyone safe. We will not apply immigration laws. “

Since then, Isaac has retired from the Cincinnati Police Department and is now the director of public safety and the police chief at the University of Cincinnati.

The Sheriff of the County, Charmaine Mcguffey, recently told FOX19, anyone can contact her office without fear of deportation.

“As a sheriff of Hamilton County, we created the statement of the Mission of Protection and Serving of Hamilton County with responsibility, transparency, dignity and respect. Everyone in Hamilton County deserves this type of treatment, whether they are originally from Ohio or not, ”she said in a statement prepared last month.

“Our immigration policy indicates that we allow public members, including immigrants and refugees, to communicate with our office, without fear of querying in immigration or deportation status.

“I am and I will always be a sheriff who applies the law and order and I am also a sheriff who is a lawyer for equal human rights.

“That being said, I will also notice that I have run a working group to investigate the actions of organized crime regarding people without documents participating in thefts in the region.”

The Trump administration has threatened to penalize the sanctuar cities, including the retention of federal financing for things such as road projects and law enforcement.

Earlier this month, American lawyer Pam Bondi announced that the justice department had sued Illinois and Chicago for their policies in Sanctuary City.

In a television interview at national level last week, Bondi warned other sanctuaries: “Better respect the federal law or you will be with.”

Several Americans say immigration should be a main objective for the US government this year, according to a December survey at the Associated Press-Norc Center for Public Affairs Research.

About half of American adults have named immigration and border topics in an open question that asked the respondents to share up to five issues that the Government to work this year, according to the survey, AP reported last month.

This is from about a third that mentioned the subject as a government priority in an AP-NORC survey conducted in the previous year, recently reported AP.