Posted on 01/29/2017 8:36:35 AM PST by markomalley
To build his highly touted deportation force, President Donald Trump is reviving a long-standing program that deputizes local officers to enforce federal immigration law.
The program received scant attention during a week in which Trump announced plans to build a border wall, hire thousands more federal agents and impose restrictions on refugees from Middle Eastern countries.
But the program could end up having a significant impact on immigration enforcement around the country, despite falling out of favor in recent years amid complaints that it promotes racial profiling.
More than 60 police and sheriff's agencies had the special authority as of 2009, applying for it as the nation's immigration debate was heating up. Since then, the number has been halved and the effort scaled back as federal agents ramped up other enforcement programs and amid complaints officers weren't focusing on the goal of catching violent offenders and instead arrested immigrants for minor violations, like driving with broken tail lights.
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What was the going rate in the 1880's for low-risk bounties? $5 per ear, or something like that>
I like bounties. Lots of people out of work who could use the money.
Without a doubt!
The non felonious citizen who turns in an illegal alien with assets Jets 10% of the loot.
the IRS already has had such a system for decades.
They really do? Do you know what it is?
Trolling trolling trolling
Rawhide!
Trump is going to whip the enemedia until it bleeds. LOLOL
Oh yeah, even more better!
Yes he is. Roll ‘em in!
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