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Immigration agents step up enforcement at NW jails

06:53 PM PDT on Wednesday, March 19, 2008

By PAT DOORIS, kgw.com



Watch the KGW report Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrive in Hillsboro before dawn. They’ve come to gather up a handful of illegal immigrants who were held at the Washington County Jail and will now be processed by ICE for deportation.

This is part of a new effort by ICE to cull county jails with a zero policy for illegals.

“Up until august of 2007 there was kind of a bench mark based on criminal charges, “ said jail commander Marie Tyler, “where inmates, if they reached a certain level for a seriousness of charge then ICE would want to be contacted. "

After August, ICE wanted to know about every illegal booked into the jail.

“During that time, there’s been a really significant change,â€