During Camp Hill’s town hall meeting on Thursday, residents expressed concerns with the Camp Hill Police Department’s participation in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s 287(g) program.
The program gives local law enforcement agencies the ability to process "removable aliens with pending or active criminal charges, enforce limited immigration law with ICE oversight during routine duties and serve and execute administrative warrants on” undocumented immigrants in jails according to ICE’s brochure.
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