The first time President Donald Trump took office, Gabe Morgan was a decade into his role as Newport News sheriff and leading the Virginia Sheriff’s Association. It was his job to help create a ...

Newport News is the only city in Hampton Roads that does not honor ICE detainers. Sheriff Gabe Morgan said that’s because neither law enforcement or residents are afforded adequate legal prot… ...

Newport News, however, is an outlier as it hasn’t had a partnership in place with ICE since 2006 and it doesn’t honor 48-hour detainer requests, according to city officials.

In Newport News, if the sheriff’s office takes someone into custody and the system shows an ICE detainer, the office notifies ICE the person is in custody along with their scheduled release. ICE ...