The effort will give sheriff’s offices and police departments a way to detain suspects without formal agreements that some cities have shunned.
Sheriff’s offices and police departments in jurisdictions that provide “sanctuary” to undocumented immigrants will have a new way to work with federal authorities to detain and deport them, immigration authorities said Monday.
Northern Virginia Gang Task Force officers partner with ICE officers to arrest an alleged MS-13 gang member in a Manassas neighborhood in 2017. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri on Monday echoed Trump in blaming sanctuary-city policies for crimes that he said would otherwise have been prevented.
“The genesis of the WSO program was: How can we offer a cooperative partnership with jurisdictions that reside in states that have local or state policies that limit cooperation with ICE?” said Matthew Bourke, an ICE spokesman. In devising the program, ICE realized it could also be useful to rural areas and counties that want to support federal immigration enforcement but lack the resources to send their deputies to lengthy training courses.
The term “sanctuary city” is generally applied to cities where local authorities refuse to heed ICE’s detention requests and in some cases refuse to communicate detainee information to ICE entirely.Trump, who has made stopping illegal immigration his top administration priority, has accused sanctuary cities of releasing “dangerous” criminals into the streets instead of holding them for ICE.
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