The following article by Yvette Cabrera was posted on the ThinkProgress website December 22, 2017:
The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office in Northern Virginia is holding people in jail past their release date at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] using a technique that raises serious questions about potential constitutional rights violations. Since President Donald Trump’s election, the number of people detained using this tactic has risen sharply, and federal officials have plans to use a similar procedure to ramp up detainments in county jails nationwide as a way to funnel immigrants into the deportation pipeline. Continue reading “To fulfill Trump’s vision on immigration, sheriffs are trampling over constitutional principles”