Thread: Miami - Dade Mayor Orders Jails to Comply with Trump Crackdown on 'Sanctuary Cities'

Miami-Dade mayor orders jails to comply with Trump crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ counties


January 26, 2017


Fearing a loss of millions of dollars for defying immigration authorities, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez on Thursday ordered county jails to comply with federal immigration detention requests — effectively gutting the county’s position as a “sanctuary” for immigrants in the country illegally.


Gimenez cited an executive order signed Wednesday by President Donald Trump that threatened to cut federal grants for any counties or cities that don’t cooperate fully with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Since 2013, Miami-Dade has refused to indefinitely detain inmates who are in the country illegally and wanted by ICE — not based on principle, but because the federal government doesn’t fully reimburse the county for the expense.




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“In light of the provisions of the Executive Order, I direct you and your staff to honor all immigration detainer requests received from the Department of Homeland Security,” Gimenez wrote Daniel Junior, the interim director of the corrections and rehabilitation department, in a brief, three-paragraph memo.


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My understanding of the county law enforcement/ICE detainer issue was that counties would honor the 48 hour hold, IF there is a warrant. This was the result of successful ACLU challenges, including in my own state. Previously ICE was requesting 48 hour holds on people who were suspected illegal aliens after their release by the county authorities but normally would not ask for a warrant.

It's hard to tell from the wording of this whether Miami-Dade is still leaving itself that loophole----since I expect that the ACLU will likely sue them over this. Our shadow government at work. That doesn't mean that the Trump administration could not carry out its strategy. It could mean that the county authorities continue to find themselves in a bind---and the possibility of more legal pressure from liberal groups.

We have to move quickly and quietly and get them all out of here. As long as illegal aliens are in the US, we have a problem, our cities have problems, our states have problems, our people have problems. Illegal aliens in the US are a problem, have always been a problem. We have to get them all out of here and close the door behind them.

ICE needs to get a list from these jails on a daily basis of those in jail who are illegal aliens...and take custody of them!

Put them in an ICE holding facility and then load up the buses FULL and head them straight to the border.

Load the buses FULL, not just 3 at a time.

Those from other countries...hold them until the plane is FULL.

Giménez will comply with Trump executive order, says not worth loss of federal funds

by Brendan Kirby | Updated 27 Jan 2017 at 12:33 PM

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez explained Friday why his jurisdiction became the first to change its policy on holding illegal immigrants for the federal government after President Trump this week moved to slash funds to so-called “sanctuary” cities.

Giménez said there was no point in jeopardizing law enforcement grants.

“It’s really not worth the risk of losing millions of dollars to the residents of Miami-Dade County in discretionary funds from the feds,” he told CNN.

Trump praised the change in a tweet on Thursday: “Miami-Dade Mayor drops sanctuary policy. Right decision. Strong!”

But Giménez said he never considered Miami-Dade to be a sanctuary city. He said the County Commission in 2014 passed a resolution instructing jailers not to hold illegal immigrants without receiving verification that the federal government would reimburse the county for the cost.

"Before that time, we would honor the request of the federal government that we would detain inmates that they wanted without regard to the compensation to the country," he said. "[We changed our policy] because it cost us about a half a million dollars over a number of years in costs that had not been reimbursed by the federal government."

Giménez stands in sharp contrast to Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and other jurisdictions with strident sanctuary polices. Mayors of those cities have vowed to resist Trump. The mayor of Boston even said he would make City Hall available to protect illegal immigrants "unjustly" targeted for removal.

Giménez said the Justice Department included his county on a list of potential sanctuary jurisdictions last year. But he said his government never has withheld information from immigration authorities, as scores of other jurisdictions do.

Whenever police arrest someone, he said, authorities put out the information to other law enforcement agencies. If there is a warrant from another police agency, Miami-Dade authorities honor it. The same is true if Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials determine the prisoner is an illegal immigrant who should be deported.

"Miami-Dade County has never withheld any information from the federal government," Giménez said. "When somebody is arrested here, we provide the information to the federal government of the people who have been arrested … We don't protect that information of anybody, for anybody."

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, told LifeZette local jurisdictions already receive partial reimbursement for incarceration costs through the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program. She said in large metro areas like Miami, ICE agents typically take custody of illegal immigrants within hours.

"This is a win for the Trump administration," she said. "If the Trump administration has not made it brutally clear early on … a lot of the sanctuary cities would have gone about business as usual and figure it was just an empty threat by the feds."

Vaughan said it also represents a victory for the approach of Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), who pushed the Justice Department to threaten to withhold funds from the 10 largest sanctuary jurisdictions.

http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/m...ctuary-policy/

I hope Trump starts loading up some planes to Central America..., load them FULL. Send the message...do not come here.

Get at least 10 planes loads of them on the way now. They see this with their own eyes and many will stop this journey.

Shut these human traffickers down now. Stop wasting your money paying coyotes and lying to come here.

Central America does not want the ones coming in from Cuba, Africa and all over the World. They need to send the message...do NOT come to Central America either.