>> A number of Illinois counties might be violating the state's trust act.

That's the state's sanctuary law.

Part of which prohibits Illinois law enforcement agencies from detaining people over their immigration status.

But it W T Tw News analysis found more than a dozen sheriff's offices have agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for that very reason.

Our reporter Blair Paddock joins us now with more Blair.

What are these agreements?

So these agreements are U.S.

marshals, service agreements.

And so those agreements are to detain people on behalf of the marshals.

The marshals don't have their own bed space.

They need somewhere to house federal detainees.

So they contract with local jails, prisons, private facilities, most contracts other agencies can authorize them self's to also detain people at a local jail.

So what I found are jails sheriff's departments in Illinois that have these checked off for ice.

So they have ice able to detain people at their own trails.

To these constitute constitute a violation of the state sanctuary Yeah.

According to a lawyer that I spoke to that's been looking into trust act violations.

So there's 2 laws going on here.

There's that all my trust act and Illinois Way Forward Act.

Both sanctuary laws and they say, you know, a local law enforcement agency or official cannot enter into contract to detain are house people on behalf of federal immigration authorities for civil immigration enforcement, which these contracts would do.

>> It's unclear how exactly these are being used, but either way, the lawyer I spoke to said it's concerning because ICE could come knocking out of local sheriff store and say, you know, we want to detain someone and they have a contract that says that they could.

So what has the reaction been, especially from those counties that have these contracts?

>> Yeah.

So for 4 of them, they said that they would get rid of these contracts.

The ice writer specifically on these contracts.

one of them.

Got back to me 4 days later saying, hey, we got rid of this.

Where within the bounds of the state log on another 6 said that they would they're within the bounds of the state law that they're not currently housing people on behalf of ICE.

I didn't hear back from the rest, I also didn't hear back from the Illinois attorney general they oversee the implementation of these laws.

If these laws are being followed.

And I didn't hear back on whether or not looking into this or what they make of Okay.

Interesting product.

Thank you so much reporting.

Thank you.

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