U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) is blaming the Biden administration for the Baldwin County Jail no longer being an approved facility for Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) inmates.
ICE notified Baldwin County Sheriff Anthony Lowery last week that the jail did not meet the regulations required to hold ICE detainees for over 72 hours after being approved for 13 years, including not having a recreational yard for them to use daily.
In a recent call with reporters, Tuberville was asked about the change and said it was ICE working at Biden's behest to prevent illegal aliens from being detained.
"We've done a lot of work on this," Tuberville stated. "Basically, this is a Biden after-effect. You know, the U.S. Marshals work along with ICE in all these compliance issues. There's been no changes to current laws, so it's unclear why the jail is no longer compliant other than the fact that I was just told this morning that ICE under Biden came in and looked and said you know your outside area for your detainees is not large enough. Well, basically, what they were doing is they were looking for any reason not to impound illegal immigrants."
Alabama's senior U.S. Senator said he was working with Lowery and that the jail was "just fine."
"The average stay of an illegal immigrant in any jail is 72 hours. This should have nothing to do with the outside area, where they have the opportunity to go out for a couple hours to walk around. Again, this was an after-effect of ICE under Joe Biden and his radical regime, and so now that President Trump is in there, we will be able to get this rectified. we'll be able to use the jail any time we want...At the end of the day, they were looking for any possible way to say, 'We can't use your jail down there and impound people, but that was their theory all along of being able to keep more illegals in the country," Tuberville said.
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