Immigration Officials Working with Johnson County
Reported by: Marissa Cleaver
Email: cleaver@nbcactionnews.com
Last Update: 8:48 pm

OLATHE, Kan. – The Immigration and Customs Enforcement says they are working with the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department to identify inmates who may be in the country illegally.

Sheriff Frank Denning says they have nearly 50 illegal immigrants currently housed in their jail. They have a total of more than 700 inmates. Dennings says the majority of the illegal immigrants are serving time for non-violent offenses.

The Sheriff’s Office spends more than one hundred dollars a day on each inmate.

ICE agents visit the jail once a week to interview inmates who are suspected of being illegal.

“If they are charged, if they do serve a sentence after they serve that sentence they are not going to be released on the street. They will be released to ICE custody so they can go through the whole deportation process,â€