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    18 Texas sheriffs clamoring to join deportation push, after Harris County ends contra

    18 Texas sheriffs clamoring to join deportation push, after Harris County ends contract

    Updated 11:24 am, Monday, March 27, 2017

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    Ed Gonzalez, Harris County's newly-elected sheriff, has ended a special enforcement partnership with federal immigration officials, but at least 18 other mostly rural and suburban Texas sheriffs have now proposed to help the Trump administration aggressively deport immigrants in the country illegally.

    Gonzalez announced last month that he no longer would fund a team of 10 specially trained deputies at a cost of about $675,000 a year who worked at the Harris County Jail helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement identify detainees who might be subject to deportation. He said he will continue cooperating with federal immigration authorities and maintain an office and ICE computers.

    But even as he ended the contract program known as "Secure Communities," sheriffs in Galveston, Brazoria, Tarrant, Waller and other counties have expressed interest in the same type of enforcement partnership under section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that Harris County had relinquished.

    Under President Barack Obama, that ICE partnership program had shrunk from 70 participating agencies to 37 in 16 states. Harris County had been one of the last remaining urban sheriff's departments in that mix.

    But other Texas sheriffs have responded enthusiastically to an executive order President Donald Trump signed five days after taking office aimed at revitalizing Secure Communities and authorizing the hiring of an additional 10,000 immigration officers to "enhance public safety in the interior of the United States."


    Just three police agencies have ICE contracts in Texas: Jackson County, Lubbock County and the Carrollton Police Department near Dallas.

    The Texas counties that have expressed an interest in signing ICE contracts include: Aransas County, Bee County, Brazoria County, Calhoun County, Chambers County, De Witt County, Galveston County, Goliad County, Lavaca County, Matagorda County, Montgomery County, Refugio County, Smith County, Tarrant County Victoria County, Waller County, Walker County and Wharton County.



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    Lets go Texas!! You're our largest state border. We need your interior law enforcement to help US out here!! Thank you Texas Counties who see and have responded to the need!! LOVE YOU TEXAS!!!
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    I see Smith County is listed there - that's good.

    Now let's move on up East Texas, where the poultry corporations operate - Camp, Titus, Gregg, all points north and East of there.

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