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Immigration enforcement training for sheriffs
By Chattanooga Times Free Press
Published: 01/02/2008

TENNESSEE - Six Whitfield County sheriff's officers will begin training this month to allow them to identify, hold and even start deportation of illegal immigrants booked into the county jail on criminal charges, officials said.

Sheriff Scott Chitwood said his department applied several months ago to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to have eight officers participate in the increasingly popular 287(g) program. Read more.

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