Franklin County will be the first in Pennsylvania to join a new ICE program. The program gives corrections officers the power to hold illegal immigrant inmates for an extra three days after their detention is completed, to allow immigration officers more time to take custody of them. Previously, the inmate would be released the day their detention ends and could go free if an immigration officer wasn’t there to detain them. County jail officials noted discussions about the program started last summer, and they would’ve joined whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris had taken office.
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