They Called 911 for Help. Police sent them to ICE Detention instead.

As more local police collaborate with ICE, even some crime victims and people who call 911 are facing arrest

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The encounter with the sheriff’s deputies was cordial at first. Axel Sanchez Toledo had called 911 in December to ask the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, in South Florida, for a welfare check on his 4-year-old. He shared custody with his ex, and had heard his daughter was sick, he told one deputy, as he stood next to his girlfriend and their infant son…

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