GOSHEN – For the last several years, long before the Trump administration began to crack down on people who are illegally in the US, Orange County has been housing federal immigration detainees in the county jail.
That number has remained constant with no increase in inmates, said jail administrator Col. Kenneth Decker.
“We have a standard number of inmates, a ballpark figure that we will house and ICE provides us with that number of inmates. We currently have 177 and that number stays fairly stable,” Decker said. “We don’t have any blip or any rise in the number of inmates due to anything that is being done currently.”
Orange County earns some $8 million a year from the housing of detainees, who can be held anywhere from a short period of time to a year.
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