Dart’s Office Walks Back Controversial Comments
The office of Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is walking back controversial comments Dart made recently in an interview to a local public broadcasting station. In an interview with Chip Mitchell of WBEZ, Dart suggested that he’s reconsidering policies in which the Sheriff’s office would hold illegal aliens detained at the jail for forty-eight hours past the completion of their sentence in order for Immigration and Custom Enforcement to come pick them up and detain them on immigration violations.
Dart suggested he was considering the legal ramifications of releasing illegal aliens immediately upon the completion of their sentences, something the San Francisco County Sheriff’s office has recently begun to do.