ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A dispute over how closely the Alexandria Sheriff's Office should work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is fueling tension between city leaders and law enforcement.

The Alexandria City Council has asked the sheriff's office to stop cooperating with ICE, though both sides say the department is not actively helping federal agents detain people in the community.

"Not in any way is the sheriff's office working with ICE to pull people off the street, no absolutely not," Councilmember Canek Aguirre said. "I want to be very clear about that and that I completely agree with the sheriff he is not collaborating with ICE. It's just this disagreement of whether or not to turn people over that he has in custody."

At the center of the dispute is language in Virgi

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