17-01-2019 19:24 via kvoa.com

ICE ends detainee housing contract with Maryland county

GLEN BURNIE, Md. (AP) — Weeks after a Maryland county stopped alerting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement about the immigration status of its jail inmates, the federal agency is withdrawing from its contract to house detainees there — a decision that will cost the county millions in revenue.
The Capital reports the agency gave Anne Arundel County three months’ notice in a letter Wednesday. The county received about $4 million last year to house up to 130 ICE detainees.
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