Mallory Moench is reporting for the Times Union immigrant detainees are no longer being held at Albany County Jail after Sheriff Craig Apple advised the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that it would limit who is housed at the facility depending on how the people are arrested. Immigration and Customs Enforcement can make an arrest with an administrative warrant, but according to federal law, ICE agents must have a signed judicial warrant to conduct search and seizures, like entering a home or car. In a letter dated April 11, Apple advised federal authorities that his department lacked authority under state law to detain people detained using administrative warrants. Since April, ICE sent one detainee, Apple said, who he turned away. Regional ICE spokesman Khaalid Walls confirmed the agency no longer uses Albany County Jail. Albany County was paid a total of $4.5 million last year by the federal government to house detainees. "It was a very eye-opening experience. To me it's pretty much shameful the way things are going on regarding immigrants and the way our government is handling that," Apple said. The story is very different in Rensselaer County. Walls confirmed that ICE still uses the Rensselaer County Jail to hold detainees. The county received $50,000 for warehousing detainees last year. Also, Rensselaer County Sheriff Patrick Russo went one step further by signing an agreement with ICE and deputizing two of his officers to screen incarcerated people to determine if they are wanted by immigration enforcement. ICE arrested three people last year as a result of the agreement; Russo renewed the program this year. Read the full story in the Times Union.