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Rutherford County will become the second county in Tennessee to screen for illegal immigrants booked into the county’s jails, officials there said Friday.

In November, 10 Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies will undergo federal training to learn how to identify illegal immigrants and transfer them to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, who can process them for deportation.

Criminals are targets

Rutherford would join Davidson County, which has been participating in the program since mid-April.

“The aim of this thing is to get criminal aliens off the street,â€