A sheriff had a tough message for Donald Trump about ending this scary situation
Donald Trump has some tough challenges to tackle in his second term.
He’s going to need some help along the way.
And a sheriff had a tough message for Donald Trump about ending this scary situation.
Sheriffs offer to help with Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort
President-elect Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of illegal aliens his top priority when he returns to office.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be the tip of the spear in apprehending and deporting the millions of illegal aliens who’ve entered the country under President Joe Biden.
But this effort is going to need help from local enforcement to be successful.
Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) CEO Sam Bushman said that sheriffs in the country’s 3,100 counties could play a key role in assisting ICE.
Bushman saw an opportunity for sheriffs and state governments to work with ICE on mass deportations.
Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack, CSPOA’s founder, has been in touch with Trump’s new “Border Czar” Tom Homan about how sheriffs can help the federal government.
“Who in this country knows their counties better than the sheriff?” Mack asked.
Sheriffs know the lay of the land in their counties and can help make deporting illegal aliens easier.
Trump administration could give sheriffs new powers
ICE is going to need more manpower to be able to round up and deport millions of illegal aliens.
The incoming Trump administration wants to use the 287(g) program which allows state and local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws.
Sheriffs would be able to detain illegal aliens before they’re turned over to ICE.
Criminals who are identified as illegal aliens after they’re arrested could be detained until ICE can take custody of them.
That will save ICE the trouble of having to track them down in communities.
Incoming Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Rodney Scott wants to bring federal and local task forces under 287(g) against illegal immigration.
Frederick County, Maryland Sheriff Chuck Jenkins worked on a task force during the Bush administration.
“We had deputies on the street that could work at the direction of ICE and with ICE to take into custody people who had deportation warrants and so forth,” Jenkins told The Epoch Times.
Jenkins thought that a return of task forces would enable ICE to more efficiently deport illegal aliens.
ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations has about 7,000 employees and 24 field offices throughout the country.
Federal grant money could recruit more sheriff’s offices to come aboard according to Jenkins.
“ICE can’t do it alone, or certainly not enough,” Jenkins explained. “We need to be a force multiplier for them.”
Kinney County, Texas is next to the border of Mexico and has been flooded with illegal aliens during the Biden border crisis.
The county’s prosecutor, Brent Smith, predicted that 287(g) could turn local law enforcement into an arm of ICE.
“What I foresee is some very strong 287(g) agreements being entered into, and state and local law enforcement actually becoming an arm of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration enforcement,” Smith said.
State and local law enforcement can be on the frontlines helping ICE to deport illegal aliens.
