🚨 Hampton Roads sheriffs are increasingly collaborating with ICE for immigration enforcement, utilizing detainers to hold inmates for potential deportation. 🚨
https://www.pilotonline.com/2025/07/13/hampton-roads-ice/
🔸 Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach updated its policy in February to explicitly say it will not hold an inmate beyond the 48-hour detainer period.
Since January, the Virginia Beach Sheriff’s Office reports a release of 60 inmates to ICE as of June 10.
🔸 Suffolk
In Suffolk, detainers can be placed on an inmate arrested on probable cause or who has outstanding warrants. Suffolk policy states that it won’t issue a detainer if the person is not arrested under probable cause. But if one is requested by ICE, the sheriff, chief deputy or designee will make the final call.
Suffolk reports that its sheriff’s office has not received any requests or active detainments this year as of June 13.
🔸 Hampton
Last year, Hampton updated its policy, first implemented in 2007. It instructs deputies to contact the Law Enforcement Support Center along with Norfolk’s ICE duty office, and allow them up to an hour to determine whether to detain the individual. The inmate is to be released if no other charges are on file.
The policy does not specify how long the sheriff’s office must honor detainers. But a total of nine have been issued this year as of June.
🔸 York County
The York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office doesn’t have a written policy for detainers even though it does issue them. Officials said they did not have any records of detainments this year.
Experts predict a gradual increase in enforcement rather than large-scale deportations, influenced by federal funding and political focus.
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