Yellowstone Co. offers MetraPark as detention for immigration crackdown
For years the Yellowstone County Detention Facility has been at or over capacity — so much so that commissioners and local law enforcement officials have begun additional construction on a short-term holding facility to address the demand for space.
So, motivated by necessity and politics, the chairman of the Yellowstone County Commissioner on Thursday sent a letter to Montana’s Congressional delegation, lauding President Donald J. Trump’s recent crackdown on immigrants, and offering a solution: If there are large-scale immigrant round-ups in Montana’s largest county, put them at the county’s largest public event facility, the MetraPark.
How quickly that would happen or even if it would happen still remain unclear as the Trump administration continues to roll out new plans by the day.
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