GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. —

Greenville County Sheriff Hobart Lewis is speaking about recent rumors surrounding the presence of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the Upstate.

"We're ready for those conversations. We have talks with our federal partners. We don't have any reason to believe at all that they won't come here. I can tell you that. But we don't know when. We don't know how that will take place," the sheriff said in a Friday episode of his "Roll Call" podcast.

He said South Carolina has more than 70,000 undocumented immigrants.

"That's the best number we can come up with. Nobody has the resources to start pulling people off the street and putting them in a detention facility and calling ICE," Lewis said.

During his "Roll Call" podcast, the sheriff said

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