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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita issued a warning to the Indianapolis City-County Council after some of its members threatened to vote against the Marion County Sheriff's budget if the agency continued to house immigrants for the federal government, stating that this action would violate state law.

For months, local immigration advocates have criticized the sheriff's office after learning the county jail had become a detainee processing center for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement . The county jail in 2025 had nearly 1,000 ICE book-ins through July, according to the sheriff’s office data, after reporting around 500 book-ins for all of 2024 .

These concerns became the focus of the council’s public safety and cr

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