Posted May 20, 2007

Outagamie County Sheriff's Department steps up illegal immigrant enforcement

By Dan Wilson
Post-Crescent staff writer

APPLETON — The Outagamie County Sheriff’s Department, under a policy started last fall, is screening all jail inmates it suspects are illegal aliens and referring them to immigration authorities.


Since the policy was put into place about six months ago, 90 inmates have been picked up by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security.

“It is not a campaign or a program, it is a matter of us doing our jobs,â€