Wisconsin Supreme Court to weigh whether state can forbid local jails from holding illegal immigrants for ICE

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will take up a case over whether local jails detaining illegal immigrants at the request of federal authorities violates state law, in a case that could hinder federal immigration operations in the state.

The lawsuit the justices will hear targets the sheriffs of Walworth, Brown, Marathon, Kenosha, and Sauk counties, over their agreements with federal immigration authorities to detain illegal immigrants for additional time at the request of federal officers. The ACLU filed the lawsuit asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take up the case now, as opposed to going through lower state courts first, and claimed the agreements violate state law.