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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Federal officials are present turning their attraction to inmates arsenic President Trump cracks down connected migration enforcement.
"It appears the caller medication has an accrued absorption connected this, and they're responding to these requests a small spot much frequently," Madera County Assistant Sheriff Brian Esteves told Action News connected Tuesday.
More Madera inmates person been released to ICE truthful acold this twelvemonth than successful each of 2024.
"This year, we're already up to 7 oregon 8 arsenic opposed to conscionable 1 past year," helium said.
The accrued practice astatine the jailhouse aligns with what Congressman Tom McClintock told Action News successful an exclusive interrogation past month, saying the medication would archetypal region hardened criminals.
Advocate Stan Santos believes enforcement goes acold beyond.
"The scenery has changed entirely," helium said. "Now, they don't adjacent person to person that benignant of complaint successful bid for them to beryllium deportable."
California's SB 54 outlines however section authorities tin cooperate with ICE, requiring inmates to beryllium convicted of superior felonies oregon enactment crimes.
"I tin guarantee you they each met that SB 54 and those pre-qualifying crimes that they had suffered convictions for," Esteves said.
Federal officials reappraisal the fingerprints taken astatine the jail.
"When it comes clip to merchandise them, we fto them cognize erstwhile we're going to beryllium releasing that person, and they'll travel prime them up," Esteves said of the national migration officials.
It volition instrumentality months to cognize however the crackdown impacts inmates elsewhere.
Officials successful Fresno County accidental they volition supply an update connected May 20.
In Merced County, it volition hap sometime successful July.
Spokespeople successful Tulare, Kings, and Mariposa counties did not supply Action News a date.
"The accusation comes trickling out, truthful you find out, perhaps, adjacent a twelvemonth oregon truthful later," Santos said.
"So, you can't trust connected the numbers that we're seeing close now."
SB 54 was the archetypal of its benignant to bounds section and national migration practice erstwhile it took effect successful 2018.
Now, immoderate section politicians are calling for reforms. Those proposals are inactive nether consideration.
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