A California county has gone the extra mile to forbid any cooperation at all with ICE to ensure they don’t help with President-elect Trump’s deportation plans.
San Diego County voted 3-1 to ensure their police force cannot aid ICE in any way possible, which means they are putting public safety at risk because the focus of ICE is to deport criminal illegals.
Here’s the report via Fox News:
San Diego County has voted to further block county cooperation with federal immigration authorities ahead of an expected deportation push by the incoming Trump administration next year – a move quickly slammed by a top local Republican.
The resolution goes further than California’s existing ‘sanctuary’ law, which generally limits law enforcement’s cooperation with ICE. The vote was approved in a 3-1 vote by San Diego County’s board of supervisors.
The resolution says that the county will not provide assistance or cooperation to ICE “including by giving ICE agents access to individuals or allowing them to use County facilities for investigative interviews or other purposes, expending County time or resources responding to ICE inquiries or communicating with ICE regarding individuals’ incarceration status or release dates, or otherwise participating in any civil immigration enforcement activities.”
When ICE is aware of a suspected illegal immigrant in local or state custody, it will lodge a detainer with law enforcement, typically requesting that the agency is notified ahead of their release and in some cases held until ICE can take custody of them.
ICE says this helps detain illegal immigrants without having to go into communities and gets illegal immigrant offenders off the streets. Sanctuary proponents say that such policies chill cooperation between law enforcement and otherwise law-abiding illegal immigrants.
This is California after all, but there is simply no excuse for this kind of blatant disregard for public safety. If I were a resident there, I’d make sure the city council knew how I felt about this. Every one of these county officials should be recalled, assuming that’s possible.