Certification Program: Counties and Immigration Officers

certification program: Four of those counties along with six others not in the certification program allow federal agents to stash detained immigrants in their jails, the Austin American-Statesman reported Sunday, according to Metro News. At least 16 counties nationwide participate in both programs. Eight counties have joined a federal program that allows sheriff's deputies to become certified immigration officers. Lubbock County recently started having deputies certified as immigration officers under a program named 287 g for the law that created it. With federal pressure on illegal immigration growing, immigrant advocates worry that more counties will act to participate in both programs. It also collects 65 daily per immigrant it houses after detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.