CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF)- Since last March, the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office has voluntarily worked with ICE on immigration enforcement. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s office in conjunction with ICE has set up a jail enforcement model program at the Hamilton County Jail through the 287( g)ICE program. This allows the sheriffs office to send illegal immigrants who find themselves at the Hamilton County Jail to ICE custody. Hamilton County Sheriff Austin Garrett while speaking at the Rotary Club last year stated that his office’s involvement in the program is to prevent potentially dangerous individuals, primarily drug traffickers, from entering Hamilton County illegally. Some counties, like Catoosa and Bradley County Sheriff’s Offices, enrolled in multiple versions of that program.