MINNEAPOLIS – Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt said she hasn’t decided how much to cooperate with federal officials when it comes to handing over immigrants in the country illegally who are held in the jail she oversees in downtown Minneapolis.
Witt told reporters on Friday she’s had four meetings with White House border czar Tom Homan and continues to weigh her options. Homan said earlier this week that better access to immigrants in Minnesota jails was necessary in order to draw down the monthslong Operation Metro Surge.
Witt operates Minnesota’s busiest jail, with a capacity of about 750 people. She has found herself in the middle of ongoing efforts by federal, state and local officials to curtail an immigration enforcement surge that has upended life in the Twin Cities since December…