Just look passed the political affiliation and read what they are telling ya. Local law enforcement does not have the resources and what the feds are banking is not enough to help already overloaded local prisons/jails. And why they hell does a police dept have to participate in this program, information on illegals and any other criminal should be a keystroke away for all law enforcement – PB/TK
Texas county pulls out of program for local police to act as immigration agents – Tom Dart in Houston Monday 27 February 2017
Oscar Hernández recalls how his uncle paid a double price when he was arrested for failing to pay road tolls: local police in Houston handed him to immigration officials who deported him to Mexico.
In the years since, Hernández, also an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, has campaigned to end a program that deputises local officials to act as federal immigration agents, potentially turning a minor infraction into a life-altering event.
The 28-year-old community organiser with United We Dream celebrated a victory this week, after the Harris County sheriff’s office announced it would end its use of this program, known as 287(g).
The announcement from the county’s new sheriff comes as Donald Trump has escalated the pressure on local police to work more closely with immigration officials. In an executive order signed in January, he cited 287(g) to say that he would “empower State and local law enforcement agencies across the country to perform the functions of an immigration officer”.
Hernández said that 287(g) “encourages racial profiling, it keeps a system where if law enforcement only see undocumented immigrants as people they put in jail then it makes it very difficult for the community to trust law enforcement … If you’re undocumented then you become a target.”
The most notorious deployment of 287(g) was in the Phoenix, Arizona, area under the reign of former Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio. His office’s participation was terminated after accusations by the US justice department that Latinos were racially profiled.
Continue to the guardian.com article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/texas-harris-county-police-immigration-agents-program
