(KRON) — This June, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents made targeted arrests of people at Elmwood Correctional Facility jail in Milpitas and the Hall of Justice courthouse in San Jose, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office confirmed.
“Over the past several weeks, we have observed an increase in the presence of ICE agents at county facilities and the Superior Court,” the sheriff’s office wrote Tuesday.
ICE agents arrived last week in the public lobby of Elmwood jail to detain an inmate who was scheduled to be freed from custody. Three plainclothes ICE agents entered the lobby and provided the name and release date of the inmate.
A deputy at the front desk confirmed the information, which is publicly accessible through the sheriff’s online inmate locator, public court records, and federal databases. As soon as the man was released from county custody, ICE agents took him into federal custody. His wife was standing nearby in the jail’s lobby, the sheriff’s office said…