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What new deportation policies mean inside Halls jail
Sheriff's Office adapts to ramped-up federal guidelines
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As federal guidelines on deporting illegal immigrants broaden, local authorities are seeing changes in how immigrants are detained. In 2015, the Obama administration instituted the Priority Enforcement Program, which focused on deporting illegal immigrants convicted of serious crimes. President Donald Trump issued an executive order Jan. 25 to change deportation priorities, reverting to the Secure Communities policy that had been in force until 2015 and didn’t parse out types of crimes when considering immigrants for deportation.