Orange County Jail to End Contract with ICE

Last week, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes announced that his department would no longer house detainees for ICE in local jails. The move is a reversal of long-standing policies that saw the OC sheriff actively work with immigration officials to both detain and identify undocumented immigrants arrested for local crimes. Barnes claims that the move is purely a financial one based on the need for more space in local jails to better treat mentally ill patients, but immigration-rights activists claim that the sheriff is responding to their years-long critiques of the ICE collaboration. What will happen next?