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    New Austin City Council wants Sheriff to change ICE Detainer Policy

    By: Rudy Koski
    Posted:Oct 09 2015 04:34PM CDT
    Updated:Oct 09 2015 04:34PM CDT

    The Austin City Council wants the Travis County sheriffs office to stop handing over illegal immigrants to the feds. The on-going fight may now factor into a new debate about Sanctuary Cities on Capitol Hill.

    Inside the Travis County jail, over the past 10 days, Immigration Detainers have been placed on a total of 16 people. A policy update is outlined on the Sheriff’s Office website;

    “In a memo dated November 20, 2014, on the subject of Secure Communities, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Charles Johnson announced the discontinuation of Secure Communities and the establishment of the "Priority Enforcement Program" (PEP).”

    Administrators also point out that office personnel do not act as federal officers:

    "... TCSO notifies the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office that the individual has completed all local requirement. TCSO will then process the individual and release them from our custody. We do not hold them waiting for ICE Agents to arrive; however, if an ICE Agent is present when the person has been processed we will transfer custody to ICE.”

    Local immigration advocates claim the Immigration Detainer policy hurts families and should be discontinued.

    "So we want to stop ICE in our community and our jail, and no separate families, that’s very important to us,” said Antolin Aguirre with the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition.

    In an effort to end the detainer policy - the Austin city council, Thursday night- amended what originally was a standard operating agreement. The vote - according to council member Greg Casar who brought the issue up - is more than symbolic.

    "It sends the interlocal agreement back to the county for discussion. and the County Judge had indicated to me and the city council that she wanted to discuss this issue with the sheriff's office so by making this Amendment the city council is actually sending the interlocal agreement back to the county for further discussion and I believe we will learn a lot in that discussion,” said Casar.

    The vote was not unanimous. Council member Ellen Troxclair Abstained while Councilman Don Zimmerman was the lone No Vote. In a statement sent to FOX 7 Zimmerman explained his reason for not supporting the Casar Amendment.

    "It's nonsensical to suggest Austin doesn't "value its immigrant community". If anything, because Austin has earned a label as "sanctuary city", the ILA should have affirmed that Austin City supports legal deportations under the rule of law in an effort to reduce chances of another tragic murder by an illegal immigrant, such as we saw in San Francisco.”

    Officials with the sheriff's department declined to comment about the Thursday council vote. Sheriff Hamilton - in an interview last year did defend the policy.

    http://www.fox7austin.com/news/local...31665977-story
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    The Austin City Council makes no sense whatsoever!


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    Elected sheriffs are accountable directly to the constitution of their state, the United States Constitution, statutes, and the citizens of their county, not a city council.

    "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" ** Edmund Burke**

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    Poor Austin. It's become so stupid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MW View Post
    Elected sheriffs are accountable directly to the constitution of their state, the United States Constitution, statutes, and the citizens of their county, not a city council.
    Exactly.

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