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Feds want to set up shop in Texas jails, but county commissioners ask who will pay?

By Gritsforbreakfast

Sheriffs who want to allow immigration officials to detain more immigrants in local Texas jails are running up against a backlash from county commissioners who don't want to foot the bill for federal detainees.I'd identified that problem earlier when Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas proposed such a change as part of his primary re-election campaign. Now the Travis County Sheriff is facing criticism over the same issue from civil rights advocates and his commissioners court, reports KVUE-TV: Jim Harrington, the Director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, says he's skeptical. "The county jail is already overflowing," says Harrington. "And the feds are going to build another jail for Travis County to account for all of these people that will be detained? No chance that will happen...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on February 12, 2008 (boomark / email).