Local Sheriffs Back Trump’s Deportation Plan: ‘People Are Tired of This’; The Local Sheriffs Gearing Up to Help Trump Carry Out Mass Deportations

By admin On Dec 13, 2024

Report: Local Sheriffs Back Trump’s Deportation Plan: ‘People Are Tired of This’:

Local sheriffs expressed support for President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport large numbers of illegal migrants from the United States, stating that “people are tired of this.”

Chuck Jenkins, a Republican sheriff in Frederick County, Maryland, and Richard Jones, a Republican sheriff in Butler County, Ohio, told the Wall Street Journal that they support Trump’s deportation plan and are willing to assist the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and its agents.

Trump has stated that he plans to carry out “the largest deportation effort in the history” of the United States once in office.

Karoline Leavitt, who was selected to serve as Trump’s White House press secretary, has confirmed that Trump “will begin operations to deport millions of undocumented immigrants” at the start of his term.

Jenkins explained to the outlet that he was “willing to support” Trump “100 percent,” adding that he wants “to do more, within the law.”

When asked if he supports Trump’s plan to carry out mass deportations once his term as president begins, Jones explained that he does and “so do the American people. People are tired of this.”

Trump’s team is reportedly looking to expand ICE’s 287(g) program, which would give “sheriffs and other agencies certain ICE powers,” a person involved with the transition’s planning told the outlet. —>READ MORE HERE

The Local Sheriffs Gearing Up to Help Trump Carry Out Mass Deportations:

The president-elect plans to give county authorities more power in deportation matters—with rewards for jurisdictions that cooperate, and retribution for those that don’t

If President-elect Donald Trump ramps up deportations as promised, he will have a strong ally in Chuck Jenkins, the longtime Republican sheriff of Maryland’s Frederick County.

“I’m willing to support the president 100%,” said Jenkins, 68, gravel-voiced with a gray buzzcut. “I want to do more, within the law.”

That prospect is spreading fear in immigrant circles, advocates say, and drawing mixed views from residents in this growing county, which backed Democrats in the last two presidential elections. But Jenkins, once dubbed among the nation’s 10 toughest immigration sheriffs by Fox News, sees Trump’s imminent return to the White House as a mandate for a more assertive approach.

For local sheriffs who have long talked tough on immigration, their time has come.

While the incoming Trump administration has spoken about increasing the ranks of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and using the military to turbocharge deportations, one thing is clear: The federal government needs help from local law enforcement in cities and states far from the border to detain and remove people en masse.

Trump’s transition team is already pursuing new spaces they can repurpose into short-term detention centers near large, Democratic-run cities where most immigrants in the country illegally live. It is also weighing a broad mix of changes to give sheriffs more power, with rewards for jurisdictions that cooperate, and financial retribution against those in blue states and cities that hold out, according to people involved in the planning.

To leverage legions of deputies, the Trump’s team is aiming for a “historic” expansion of a federal program that gives sheriffs and other agencies certain ICE powers, said one person involved in transition planning. Under that program, known as 287(g) after the section of law that created it, the team aims to revive a dormant and controversial “task force model,” which until 2012 allowed officers from participating local agencies, during their routine duties, to question and arrest suspected noncitizens in the community on immigration violations.

Tom Homan, the administration’s incoming border czar and a longtime ICE official, favors the model because it leads to more frequent and visible arrests, which he believes could act as a deterrent to would-be migrants thinking of coming to the U.S., according to people close to him.

Under one plan being considered, billions of federal dollars that currently reimburse nonprofits and cities for helping newly arrived migrants at the border would be redirected to local law-enforcement agencies that turn immigrants over to ICE, people involved in the planning said.

Trump’s plans remain unclear and some point to practical limits on how many people could be deported, given an estimated 11 million undocumented migrants in the country.

Transition officials including Homan have publicly started to narrow the effort’s scope—Trump promised to deport as many as 20 million people—to focus primarily on immigrants with criminal histories.

“State and local cooperation is absolutely essential to detain and deport illegal immigrants on a historic scale,” said RJ Hauman, president of the National Immigration Center for Enforcement, which advocates for tougher enforcement tactics.