After nearly three hours of testimony and debate the House Judiciary Committee voted 7-4 along party lines to advance House Bill 9, which would ban local governments from contracting with the federal government to operate immigration detention centers. At least five people have died in ICE detention in New Mexico in recent years, Chávez said. Felix Gonzales, mayor of the village of Milan where the Cibola County Detention Center is located, said the economic impact of the bill would be “devastating,” with 200 jobs potentially lost. Banning police-ICE dealsThe bill now includes an amendment banning partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and federal immigration enforcement, known as 287(g) agreements, which allow local officers to help carry out federal immigration enforcement. Curry County has said the agreement allows county staff to serve immigration warrants in jails and facilitate custody transfers to ICE.