The mayor of Atlanta says she’s considering ending a federal contract to house U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees in the city’s jail.
Within minutes of President Donald Trump’s executive order Wednesday reversing his administration’s family separation policy, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced her own: No new ICE detainees will enter the Atlanta City Detention Center.
Bottoms had cited Trump’s policy as the reason behind her temporary executive order to freeze housing immigrant detainees.
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