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L.A. County Ends Controversial Immigration Enforcement Partnership

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Los Angeles County is scrapping a decade-long partnership with federal immigration authorities that aimed to track down and deport undocumented immigrants who've committed serious crimes. The 287g program placed federal agents inside L.A. County's main jail in order to help identify and deport undocumented immigrants. It was meant to target only the most serious crimes, but critics complain the program unfairly ensnared people convicted of relatively minor offenses.

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