Dozens of people gathered in Alexandria, Virginia, outside of the sheriff’s office Tuesday morning, alleging that the sheriff is working with ICE.
A group called ICE Out of Alexandria held a news conference and hand delivered a letter signed by 24 local groups and leaders. The letter demanded that Sheriff Sean Casey “end his practice of voluntarily collaborating with ICE.”
The group alleges the office collaborates with ICE in three ways:
- Holding people longer to allow for ICE to pick them up
- Making courtesy calls to ICE
- Transferring people to ICE custody under administrative warrants and not judicial warrants
One person at the gathering said, “Sheriff Casey is under the misguided idea that he must comply with every request that comes from ICE. That is false.”…