Detained by ICE, leader of Wisconsin’s largest mosque put in Indiana jail

(AP/WISH) — The president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque remained in an Indiana county jail on Friday night, detained by federal immigration agents.

Milwaukee officials and religious leaders say the arrest was motivated by his criticism of Israel.

Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident of the United States, was taken into custody by nearly a dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who surrounded his car on Monday in Milwaukee after he left his home, according to the Islamic Society of Milwaukee.

Online records of the Clay County Sheriff’s Office show he was booked into the county jail in Brazil, Indiana, on Monday night. As the Indiana Capital Chronicle has reported, Clay County in 2013 began housing ICE detainees under a contract with the federal government.

Supporters called Thursday for his immediate release. His attorneys said he was detained on the grounds that he is a foreign policy threat, a claim they say has no merit.

Instead, they believe Sarsour, 53, was targeted for speaking out against Israel and for a conviction as a minor by Israeli military courts, which have faced scrut...