We Need A Congressional Hearing on Expanding the 287(g) Program
Apr 10, 2019 14:52:35 #
Maybe the only way to get things done in government is to hold their feet to the fire, and put the director of ICE and DHS on center stage to answer some embarrassing questions on why they have not complied with the President's directives!!!!
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Trump ordered expanded cooperation with local law enforcement in 2017
Washington, D.C. (April 10, 2019) - New analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies finds that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been slow to comply with a directive from the president calling for the expansion of cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement, called the 287(g) program.
View the full analysis: https://cis.org/Cadman/Florida-Sheriffs-Encouraged-Cooperate-ICE
Dan Cadman, a Fellow at the Center and the author of the analysis, said, "Under the 287(g) program, everyone wins: ICE gets a force multiplier, and local law enforcement gets criminals off the street. And yet in Florida, we're hearing that sheriffs lack the bandwidth to comply with President Trump's directive to expand the 287(g) program. Why isn't DHS making that bandwidth?"
The agency has been depressingly slow in reconstituting the 287(g) program since its functional dismantling by the Obama administration, and it's hard to fathom why.
The "jail model" of the 287(g) program is administered by the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) side of ICE, which is primarily responsible for apprehending and deporting alien criminals. Having cross-trained and designated sheriff's deputies or police officers in the booking stations and county jails helps ensure that these criminals are detected promptly, detained, and put into removal proceedings, instead of being returned to the streets to re-offend. Yet very few of these programs have been initiated since the agency was freed from Obama-era constraints.
Worse, on the other side of the ICE house, at Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), absolutely no 287(g) programs have been re-instituted, for instance with various state police organizations or local police specializing in busting human trafficking operations. These agencies are HSI's best eyes and ears in detecting alien smuggling and human trafficking organizations.
For example, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, a Florida sheriff who's emerged as a national law-enforcement leader on immigration, has been encouraging other sheriffs to at least participate in an abbreviated version of cooperation his office has developed, since ICE lacks the capacity for the full program. While Gualtieri's efforts are admirable, why isn't ICE working to make that full capacity available?
Contact:
Marguerite Telford
Director of Communications, Center for Immigration Studies
(202) 466-8185
mrt@cis.org
https://cis.org/?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=4b406f95d3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_03_03_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-4b406f95d3-45125461
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Trump ordered expanded cooperation with local law enforcement in 2017
Washington, D.C. (April 10, 2019) - New analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies finds that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been slow to comply with a directive from the president calling for the expansion of cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement, called the 287(g) program.
View the full analysis: https://cis.org/Cadman/Florida-Sheriffs-Encouraged-Cooperate-ICE
Dan Cadman, a Fellow at the Center and the author of the analysis, said, "Under the 287(g) program, everyone wins: ICE gets a force multiplier, and local law enforcement gets criminals off the street. And yet in Florida, we're hearing that sheriffs lack the bandwidth to comply with President Trump's directive to expand the 287(g) program. Why isn't DHS making that bandwidth?"
The agency has been depressingly slow in reconstituting the 287(g) program since its functional dismantling by the Obama administration, and it's hard to fathom why.
The "jail model" of the 287(g) program is administered by the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) side of ICE, which is primarily responsible for apprehending and deporting alien criminals. Having cross-trained and designated sheriff's deputies or police officers in the booking stations and county jails helps ensure that these criminals are detected promptly, detained, and put into removal proceedings, instead of being returned to the streets to re-offend. Yet very few of these programs have been initiated since the agency was freed from Obama-era constraints.
Worse, on the other side of the ICE house, at Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), absolutely no 287(g) programs have been re-instituted, for instance with various state police organizations or local police specializing in busting human trafficking operations. These agencies are HSI's best eyes and ears in detecting alien smuggling and human trafficking organizations.
For example, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, a Florida sheriff who's emerged as a national law-enforcement leader on immigration, has been encouraging other sheriffs to at least participate in an abbreviated version of cooperation his office has developed, since ICE lacks the capacity for the full program. While Gualtieri's efforts are admirable, why isn't ICE working to make that full capacity available?
Contact:
Marguerite Telford
Director of Communications, Center for Immigration Studies
(202) 466-8185
mrt@cis.org
https://cis.org/?utm_source=E-mail+Updates&utm_campaign=4b406f95d3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_03_03_27_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7dc4c5d977-4b406f95d3-45125461
Apr 10, 2019 15:00:18 #
ACP45 wrote:
Maybe the only way to get things done in governmen... (show quote)
Do you actually believe a Democrat hearing in the House will accomplish anything?
Apr 10, 2019 15:02:32 #
ACP45 wrote:
Maybe the only way to get things done in governmen... (show quote)
Real police departments don’t have the time or space to hold some kid brought here as a kid who is caught with a loose joint for the feds to deport. Not their job, not their concern.
Apr 10, 2019 15:45:40 #
Kevyn wrote:
Real police departments don’t have the time or space to hold some kid brought here as a kid who is caught with a loose joint for the feds to deport. Not their job, not their concern.
Amazing ignorance. ALL police officers should enforce ALL laws at ALL times. If an illegal is arrested, then notify the feds, .... and they should deport his sorry ass, .... even if he was arrested for one small roach! What he was arrested for is totally immaterial, he is here illegally!
Apr 10, 2019 16:52:16 #
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