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Immigration Detainees and City Jail

ice: Pence's visit Thursday, March 21, 2019, to Atlanta included a stop at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's field office and a conversation about the broader mission of border security, according to Toronto Star. He also blasted Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms over her decision last year to bar the city jail from holding federal immigration detainees and thanked the men and women who work for ICE. Andrew Harnik, File / AP Photo Pence highlighted some of the ICE arrests made in the area, including one Wednesday night in Riverdale, Georgia, news outlets reported. He also blasted Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms over her decision last year to bar the city jail from holding federal immigration detainees and thanked the men and women who work for ICE. File-This March 13, 2019, file photo shows Vice President Mike Pence speaking to Customs and Border Patrol agents and agents-in-training at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Advanced Training Facility in Harpers Ferry, W. Va. Atlanta and Georgia are safer today because of the outstanding work of the men and women of ICE in Georgia, Pence said. Trump has vetoed Congress' move. The visit also comes amid President Donald Trump's declaring a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border in an attempt to get more than 8 billion for a border wall a move Congress tried to block last week. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.