PUTNAM COUNTY, W. Va. ( WSAZ )- Immigration Customs and Enforcement ( ICE ) is part of the U. S. Department of Homeland Security, and their new enforcement and removal operations office is located in Poca, West Virginia.
To improve the efficiency of processing people in the nation where they are found illegally in West Virginia, the company moved from Charleston, where it has been for 20 years, to the new Putnam County center.
Joe Gigliotti, the assistant field company director, said the station will simply prosecute– saying it is not a holding facility.
Gigliotti said,” If we intend to keep folks detained, that is when we move them to key Pennsylvania where they will get through immigration treatment techniques or they will wait for treatment.”
In the service and office areas are two holding cell. People who are improperly living in West Virginia will be brought in by ICE officials during investigations and be able to determine whether they are detained for three reasons.
” Those would be nationwide security, public health, and new borders entrance”, Gigliotti said.
Other individuals who are detained and are improperly entering the country may be released.
” If they are released, we will get them to a Greyhound and make sure they get to wherever they want to go or need to go,” Gigliotti said. We do have a non-detained people, which is people who live their life while the judges remove them from custody. Therefore, global that variety is a little more than 6 million, so we do track a little bit over two- 300 citizens in West Virginia.”
Deputy Bobby Eggleston of Putnam County said he had toured the center.
Eggleton said,” This is for people who are already here, they are illegal immigrants that are already here.” Now, I have a major issue with them if they are going to approach these people and launch them into the public.
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