Despite the ACLU’s backing of this, and their primary intent being to aide illegals, there’s a silver lining that I don’t think they intended.
While the downside is that some illegals are getting a get out of jail free pass—and I do have a problem with that—I have a bigger problem with the feds treating local sheriffs as their personal hired hands. I like the autonomy the locals exercised here. This precedent is going to come in handy down the line, many times over, imho.
This is not just about ICE. If ICE can order local LEO around and demand they do this or don’t do that, so can Homeland Security, ATF, the IRS, EPA or, given the way things are going, even the Oval Office. The precedent these sheriffs set is, imho, far more valuable to the principles of liberty than this one issue—frustrating as it may be.
Nice to see at least one person here understands and what happened
Good point.
I agree. What SHOULD be happening is the county sheriffs, on their own, being able to check immigration status and charge them and hold them to turn over to ICE. However, that is never going to happen.
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