ICE aims to lower US detention standards to encourage aid to crackdown

2/2/2025 7:12

The Trump administration aims to lower its existing detention standards to encourage more U.S. sheriffs to provide jail space to detain immigrants in the U.S.

illegally, Trump's border czar Tom Homan said on Saturday.



Homan said at an annual meeting of the National Sheriffs' Association in Washington, D.C., that the administration was working to allow U.S. sheriffs to detain migrants in their jails using their state-level standards instead of more rigorous U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) guidelines and to

reduce the number of federal inspections.



"Your detention standards, your state detention standards, is what we're looking at," Homan said. "If that's good enough for a U.S. citizen in your county, it's good enough for an illegal immigrant detained for us," Homan said.



President Donald Trump launched a wide-ranging crackdown on illegal immigration after taking office on Jan. 20, redirecting military resources to support border security and deportations while empowering ICE officers to arrest more non-criminals.