Glendale City Council members defended the contract this week, saying the 2007 agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement is in compliance with state law.

Detainees of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are being held in Glendale, in what some immigration advocates are calling a violation of California’s sanctuary state law. Since January, 82 people have been detained by ICE and housed in the Glendale City Jail.

Despite California’s sanctuary laws, the city of Glendale continues to allow federal immigration detainees to be held in its city jail — a decades-old contract now under new fire. The Glendale Police Department is housing individuals detained by U.