Tribune Features ICE Contract Cancellation Vote on Front Page

The Chicago Tribune has put a story about those seeking to cancel McHenry County’s ICE illegal alien housing contract on its front page.

Chicago Tribune front page article on ICE contract cancellation vote.

McHenry County Board Chairman Mike Buehler said the cancellation campaign is being conducted by a small, but vocal minority.

Additionally, he is quoted as saying,

“If the contract was canceled, we may cede control to facilities that may not be as well-equipped to provide the level of care we provide.

“The contract also helps keep our taxes as low as possible.

“I’ve yet to hear a proposal for how those shortfalls would be replaced.”

The story also touches base with Sheriff Bill Prim:

Sheriff Bill Prim said his facility is accredited and inspected by federal officials, and provides humane treatment to both local inmates and federal detainees…

The jail previously was expanded with the help of federal funding for housing federal detainees. Since 2003, Prim said, the ICE contract has generated $117 million for the county.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the jail often held around 280 to 300 federal detainees a day, Prim said. Since then, with efforts to reduce the number of people incarcerated, the number of federal detainees had dropped to 78 as of Tuesday, compared with about 200 county inmates.

ICE pays the county $95 per day per inmate, compared with county cost estimates of $25 to $40 per day. The contract generated revenue of more than $10 million in fiscal year 2019, and $7 million in fiscal year 2020, Prim said. But now revenue has fallen to less than $1 million for the first quarter of this fiscal year.


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Tribune Features ICE Contract Cancellation Vote on Front Page — 10 Comments

  1. If we eliminate the criminal we would eliminate Ice

    So lets eliminate the Criminal first the Ice will fade away

    But until then we need ICE to keep the criminal element under control

  2. “the cancellation campaign is being conducted by a small, but vocal minority.”…..

    16 Big mouths standing on the corner of 31 and 62 should not drive legislation on this issue. \\

    Thank you Mike Buehler and the Blogger on here that pointed that out.

    “If the contract was canceled, we may cede control to facilities that may not be as well-equipped to provide the level of care we provide.———

    Yeah Big Mouths, have you thought about any of that?

    Where exactly are these Ice detainees going to go, if they arent simply “set free”?

    –they’d be moved to a facility of God knows where and what the; credentials, capacity, or compassion to take them in and house appropriately are.

    County Leadership needs to do the right thing there.

    And not just what 16 Big Mouths, a dog, and hastily made signs think.

    Who do our Local Leaders work for and represent?

    Those 16 may even have been bused in from Chicago.

  3. We could end illegal immigration tomorrow if we really wanted to.

    $5,000 per head dead bounty, with a hard labor prison sentence for anyone apprehended in this fashion.

    99.9% of illegals will self-deport overnight.

    That will never happen though because the Democrats are all for importing poor people from the third world who will be dependent on welfare and reliably vote Democrat for generations.

    The Bush/Cheney wing of the GOP are all for importing poor people from the third world to drive down the labor costs at their companies.

    No national politician cares about what the invasion of unskilled laborers does to your wages, unfortunately.

  4. Don’t worry the detainees will start flooding back in the not so distance future.

    All the criminals that are coming across the border will be arrested soon enough.

    Open borders increase criminal activity.

  5. If your workload is slowing, why did you advertise for new jailers, sounds like maybe some need furloughs??

    Asking for the taxpayers.

  6. Prim is weak, and a retiring geek.

    He stopped Zinke, but never cleaned up the county.

    Much lip service.

  7. I notice many signs are up in favor of eliminating the contract. Concerning.

  8. Don’t know where cynthia is seeing signs. Perhaps these are signs in yards of illegal aliens or useful idiots who voted for the moron Biden who supports illegal aliens. Get around a lot in the County and have not seen a single sign supporting getting rid of ICE. One would have to be a moron or a traitor to oppose the efforts by the US Government and ICE which has the authority to enforce laws about illegal immigrants.

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