Lafayette Parish Sheriff Mark Garber confirmed on Friday that his office has been in negotiations with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to turn a sheriff-owned building, the LPSO Annex, into a 72-hour holding facility for immigrant detainees.
“When ICE said: ‘Hey, would you be interested in doing that?,’ we jumped at the chance,” Garber says. But, he adds, talks have stalled since.
In April, LPSO spokesperson Valerie Ponseti told The Times-Picayune that the sheriff’s office was in “active negotiations with ICE to fulfill key regional functions.”…