The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office recently signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement – but it does not allow sheriff’s deputies to enforce immigration law.
A growing number of law enforcement agencies across the country have signed onto the agreements with ICE, allowing some to arrest people they suspect of being in the country illegally.
However, Sedgwick County’s 287(g) agreement allows the office only to serve immigration detainers to jail residents under what’s called the warrant service officers model. Before the agreement, this was something only ICE officers were able to do…