Pinal County’s top prosecutor says his enforcement agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement remains in effect despite the Board of Supervisors having declared it void.
The Pinal County Attorney’s Office says only itself or ICE can terminate a 287g agreement signed about six weeks ago to work together on violent crime task forces.
And County Attorney Brad Miller is rejecting the Board’s claim that the deal is void.
An analysis by a private law firm found that the deal assigns sheriff duties to the county attorney, which is inconsistent with the traditional separation of police and prosecutors.
Miller has called the deal a force multiplier giving his office federal database access and other resources.
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Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. -
The relationship between Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller and the Board of Supervisors has been rocky since a legal fight started over Miller unilaterally signing up to work with ICE. -
The National Park Service has denied an activist group’s request to place water stations along the Arizona-Mexico border — marking the first time their permit has been denied in more than two decades. -
The Utah-based Management & Training Corporation, or MTC, operates several prisons and ICE facilities around the U.S. This Marana site is an old state prison that was run by MTC before Arizona severed that contract and shut it down in 2023. -
The association says immigrant workers account for more than 25% of the construction workforce. And the impact of immigration enforcement and workplace raids is felt across the board — with some markets reporting even workers with legal status not showing up due to ICE fears.
