Months of complaints about the Marion County jail's incarceration of immigrants facing deportation weren't enough to convince Indianapolis councilors to oppose the sheriff's 2026 budget in a Sept. 24 vote.

Residents have protested Marion County Sheriff Kerry Forestal's work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold an average of about 100 detainees a day in the county jail. Opponents pushed the Indianapolis City-County Council to hold up the sheriff's $150 million budget for next year until Forestal agrees to stop participating in what they view as the Trump administration's attack on constitutional due process in service of mass deportation.

But only one councilor on the Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee, District 11 Democratic Councilor Crista Carlino, voted no

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