WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI - Washtenaw County may not be top priority for immigration enforcement, but local officials are preparing for the possibility that local streets could soon mirror Chicago’s.

“If you would have asked me that four months ago, I might have said, ‘No, not a chance,’” said Washtenaw County Sheriff Alyshia Dyer. “…I don’t put anything past the national administration right now. So we have really looked internally on how we would handle that.”

Immigration agents have arrested more than 1,000 immigrants in Chicago in a crackdown that began in early September, according to The Associated Press . The patrols have featured masked, armed agents; a fatal shooting; detentions of both U.S. citizens and immigrants with legal status; and a pastor shot in the head with a pepper ball

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