MANATEE -- A new partnership between the Manatee County Sheriff's Office and federal immigration officials is going to mean a lot more jail time for illegal immigrants arrested in Manatee County. In four weeks, several corrections officers with the sheriff's office are expected to return from an intensive U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement training program with a working knowledge of and access to federal homeland security databases. The program, called 287(g), is a nationwide effort by ICE to improve local law enforcement agencies' ability to enforce immigration law. Currently, law enforcement officers on the street do not have access to a person's immigration status. When the training is completed, every person booked into the Manatee County jail will go through an immigration screening that could mean a lot more jail...
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