Posted on 08/02/2017 4:50:42 AM PDT by 11th_VA
In an escalation of local law enforcement agencies' participation in immigration enforcement, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency on Monday announced it had struck 18 new partnerships with sheriff's departments in Texas.
The announcement is a notable development in the Trump administration's efforts to ramp up its deportation apparatus, following memos from the Department of Homeland Security in February announcing that it would expand a controversial ICE program that had largely fallen into disuse under the Obama administration.
ICE's 287(g) program establishes agreements with local law enforcement agencies, allowing them to deputize officers as immigration agents and enforce federal immigration law. In recent years, the federal government had allowed most of the previously existing agreements to lapse without renewal, leaving roughly 38 participating law enforcement agencies by the time President Donald Trump took office.
"ICE plans to continue this higher rate of expansion in the coming year, as resources allow," the agency said in a statement. The 18 new counties bring ICE's total to 60 287(g) agreements across the US, with a total of 1,822 state and local officers authorized to enforce federal immigration law.
Since the Trump administration announced it would revive the program, ICE has reported a surge in interest from police and sheriff's departments.
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I’d bet my last tamale that Houston won’t be “partnering” with ICE.
And that’s sad, because we have a massive Mexican problem here.
Put Joe Arpaio in charge of this program.
Put Joe Arpaio in charge of this program.
It’s really irritating that so many still make the mistake of saying Sheriff Dept. instead of the correct Sheriff Office...
A department is something to be micromanaged..
The Office is the designation that the head of that agency is elected.
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Gonzales (Harris County) dropped out claiming it would save over half a million bucks. Said his deputies didn’t have time....whatever
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