For potentially $150 a day per person, the Rockingham County jail could become a temporary home for around 150 immigration detainees.

Rockingham County commissioners voted 2-1 earlier this year in favor of applying to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and board members said the superintendent of the jail has been working with federal officials on logistics.

A formal proposal and negotiation could come this fall, said Commissioner Steven Goddu, a Republican from Salem.

“We’re actively going back and forth with ICE on details, and we have been for some time now,” Goddu said Monday. “I suspect that is coming to a close sometime, probably within a month or so, I’m going to guess.”

After commissioners voted in favor of pursuing a contract with ICE in April, a group of about 15

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