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| ICE chief wants to slap smuggling charges on leaders of sanctuary cities |
| 2017-07-28 |
| [Wash Times] The country’s top immigration enforcement officer says he is looking into charging sanctuary city leaders with violating federal anti-smuggling laws because he is fed up with local officials putting their communities and his officers at risk by releasing illegal immigrants from jail. Thomas Homan, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also told Americans to expect more work site enforcement targeting unscrupulous employers and more 287(g) agreements with willing police and sheriff’s departments that want to help get illegal immigrants off their streets. Eventually, he said, ICE will break the deportation records of 409,849 migrants set in 2012 under President Obama. "I think 409,000 is a stretch this year, but if [the Justice Department] keeps going in the direction they’re going in, if we continue to expand our operational footprint, I think we’re going to get there," he told The Washington Times. "Our interior arrests will go up. They’re going to top last year’s for sure." Mr. Homan is the spear tip of President Trump’s effort to step up immigration enforcement -- perhaps the largest swing in attitude for any agency in government from the last administration to the current one. Agents and officers have been unshackled from the limits imposed by Mr. Obama, whose rules restricted arrests to less than 20 percent of the estimated illegal immigrant population. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 ...Given the fervor with which these people defend their views, they will have no problem going to prison for them. But I suspect that after the first two or three end up doing hard time, the rest may reconsider. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-07-28 16:42 |
| #4 The 'Underground Railroad' moved people to Canada. If that's their intent, then carry on otherwise you are engaged in conspiracy to violate federal law. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-07-28 12:12 |
| #3 These sanctuary cities must view themselves as the "2017 Underground Railroad" and the next late-great civil rights cause. These people are law-breakers as are the people who come here illegally. Good for ICE. I noticed they didn't release this info through WAPO. Hard telling what would been printed if they did. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-07-28 11:20 |
| #2 Well they are definitely aiding and abetting. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-07-28 10:13 |
| #1 charging sanctuary city leaders with violating federal anti-smuggling laws Wonder if they can't attach a little 'Human Trafficing' to it? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-07-28 10:00 |