Town hall meeting hits on 287(g) program
By Jonathan Stinson



Published September 3, 2009
During Albertville’s town hall meeting Monday night, the mayor and City Council hit on issues about how the 287(g) program would be implemented and paid for, but after the meeting some in the Hispanic community still had concerns.

Mayor Lindsey Lyons and Councilman Chuck Ellis voiced their support for the 287(g) program.

The 287(g) program would allow local police officers to act as Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agents.

“287(g) is government terminology, much like 401(k), like some of those other things we talk about. It’s just a paragraph in a section of a code that goes with this, this, and this, and I’m sure that there are a lot of lawyers here who can explain it much better than I can,â€