The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors this week pushed the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) agency out of its jails, answering immigrant advocates' concern that the county's partnership with the federal immigration agents was eroding immigrants' trust in local police. The supervisors voted 3-2 Tuesday to end a program that allowed ICE agents to work inside county jails so as to review inmates' immigration status and potentially deport them prior to their release from jail.
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