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Will A New Deal Prevent Immigration Raids In Madera County?

Since the beginning of April, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced more than 350 arrests in raids from New York to Virginia to Texas. Presumably, they could happen anywhere at anytime. But a new quid pro quo with the government has Madera County hoping it can both do away with raids and keep its residents safe. In most of California, county jails are run by county sheriffs. Not so in Madera, where District Attorney David Linn explains the jail belongs to its own Department of Corrections. “In a sense, it’s really kind of a godsend for the sheriff because running the county jail is a nightmare,” Linn says. But with so many people in charge of law enforcement, one hand may not know always what the other is doing. That appears to be what happened earlier this year when Linn started getting complaints from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. “I started receiving phone calls inquiring as to what was occurring in Madera County and pointing out to me that they
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