Posted on 10/16/2017 11:11:56 AM PDT by 4Runner
NEW PORT RICHEY — The Pasco County Sheriff's Office is taking steps to turn some of its jail deputies into federal immigration agents.
Sheriff Chris Nocco has signed an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to join a controversial program that give deputies the power to check the immigration status of people booked into the county jail and to serve warrants on suspected undocumented inmates — a process that could lead to deportation.
The decision puts the Sheriff's Office in the middle of a national debate over whether local law enforcement should play a role in enforcing federal immigration laws.
The first sheriff in the Tampa Bay area and only the fourth in Florida to join the program, Nocco says the partnership will resolve a legal dilemma over detaining ICE suspects in the jail while making the county safer by moving them more quickly toward deportation
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That’s my county — Pasco. This might be one of the first things Nocco does that I approve of.
EVERY law enforcement agency should detain EVERY illegal alien they encounter.
That’s what happens in every other country.
Try it..../s
This is the problem when sheriff’s are elected in this day and age. They become hyper political animals.
... undocumented immigrants will shy away from deputies and law-abiding immigrants will be targeted...
There is no such thing as a law abiding illegal alien.
Good on my sheriff, as well.
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