The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office signed a formal agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to issue 48-hour detainers for people held in the county jail. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and more than a dozen sheriff's departments have signed similar deals.

Sedgwick County Sheriff’s deputies are carrying out limited immigration work after the office signed an agreement last week with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Some departments and local ICE offices have used the agreements as a kind of ‘force multiplier,” expanding the reach and strength of immigration operations.

Sheriff Jeff Easter said for his office and others in Kansas, the agreements are more about codifying an existing relationship with ICE.

“There’s several other sheriffs that have now signed

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