Immigration Crackdown: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to screen Bexar County Jail visitors

Outrageous!

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sought to screen Bexar County Jail visitors - San Antonio Current: "While U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have repeatedly said in recent years their aim is to root out and deport criminal aliens above all others, a local ICE official fired off an email in March to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Department asking for help setting up a “pilot program” to target undocumented immigrants coming to visit family and friends in Bexar County Jail. ...

In emails obtained by the Current through an open-records request, the ICE official wrote that he and other agents had begun noticing visitors with “non U.S. government issued or foreign ID cards” passing through the jail’s visitors area, and said, “With the approval of your office we would like to interview and possibly take into custody such individuals that are entering and attempting to visit inmates in the Visitor/Lobby area of the Bexar County Jail/Annex.”"