Illinois Sheriff Reverses Support for ICE Detention Center

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : Homan also warned state and local officials not to stand in the way of ICE as it performs its job and that he has no problem arresting officials who engage in such obstruction.
40% : The Republican sheriff had been working with ICE to develop the facility, but after being confronted with angry pro-illegal activists, Caruana did an about face on Thursday, according to Illinois Public Media of Will County.
38% : Winnebago County Sheriff Gary Caruana has reversed his support for a plan to designate a new facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house illegal migrants slated for deportation in the northern Illinois region.
36% : Citing severe jail staff shortages, the sheriff claimed that he had asked ICE to guarantee that only illegals convicted of or arrested for crimes would be held in the proposed Winnebago County facility, but ICE was unwilling to make that promise.

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