Homeland Security Tells ICE to Cut Ties With Jail That Sicced Dogs on Migrants Protesters drive in a caravan around Immigration and Customs Enforcement's El Paso Processing Center to demand the release of migrant detainees on April 16, 2020, in El Paso, Texas. Paul Ratje / Agence France-Presse / AFP via Getty Images By In a move hailed as “a major win” by migrant rights advocates, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday announced it is moving to end migrant detention at two county jails under federal investigation for alleged abuses including forced sterilizations and unleashing dogs on detainees. DHS said in a statement that Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to “discontinue use” of the C. Carlos Carreiro Immigration Detention Center at the Bristol County Jail in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts and to “prepare to discontinue the use” of the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia.