In late May, the Butler County Jail canceled its contract with to hold immigration detainees. That started a 60鈥揹ay period to release, deport or move detainees to other ICE detention centers.
That period finishes at the end of July. An immigration attorney talks about how that's unfolded.
Maria Otero is a senior attorney at . Her client in the Butler County Jail was moved to a different jail two weeks after the contract was canceled.
Otero says the canceled contract has delayed attorneys鈥� ability to help new detainees, who are now more likely to be transferred out of state and can鈥檛 be immediately located.
鈥淏ecause it was real easy to know where someone will probably be sent if they were picked up around here," Otero said. "But now we don鈥檛 know. This week I heard somebody got picked up in Cincinnati and then were sent to Boone County, Ky.鈥�
The Butler County Jail had contracts with ICE to hold detainees since 2003.
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