Douglas County Sheriff Aaron Hanson has proposed using the county jail in Omaha to hold people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The nation’s oldest Hispanic civil rights organization said its name has been inaccurately tied to the proposal.
The national chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) raised concerns this week after the group was cited in Hanson’s proposal. The sheriff wrote that previous conversations with LULAC leaders about the concept were “all positive and focused on identifying smart common ground and collaboration.”
LULAC spokesman David Cruz called that assertion and the use of LULAC’s name in the proposal “inappropriate, unauthorized and premature.”…