Cobb County jail site of confusion, despair over deportation – Georgia

Cobb’s Hispanic population is learning the hard reality of heightened immigration enforcement at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center.

The new deportation program means more families wait at the jail to learn if a loved one will be released.

It means families don’t know whether to pay bond on local charges if there is the chance a relative will be held anyway until the federal government deports him. Visits at the jail have been limited to one per week because of the volume of inmates, for an array of reasons.

On top of that, immigrant advocates say some inmates are held longer than permissible while the sheriff’s staff decides whether to press immigration charges. They say Cobb County is targeting Latino immigrants in traffic stops.”*

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