WEST BEND, Wis. — Washington County Sheriff Marty Schulteis talked with TMJ4 about his decision to sign a collaboration agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying the policy itself isn't new, even though the formal agreement is.

Schulteis signed the Warrant Service Officer Program agreement several months ago, joining 13 county sheriff's offices in Wisconsin with similar arrangements.

The agreement specifically allows his office to serve and execute administrative warrants, meaning they can hold people on immigration detainers if inmates in the county jail have committed crimes and are not in the country legally.

"We have been honoring ICE detainers, the administrative warrants, for at least since 2012 and probably much before that," Schulteis said.

Under the agreem

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