Some states seek to help Trump in immigration performance

As the Trump administration seeks more partners to help immigrants who live illegally in the United States, some states and cities seek to intensify, despite the risks of racial profiling.

Florida, New Gampshire, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and even the democratic governor of Arizona hold nationwide plans to help find immigrants for possible deportation.

And the number of state and local agencies planning the “working group” with federals to execute immigration at the street level, reached 121 departments in 12 states: Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New-Gampshire, New York.

Suddenly strengthening agreements on a local working group – led to racial trial 20 years ago, when they were widespread in republican and democratic states – a sign that the Trump administration wants more deportations, Tom Wong, Associate Professor and Director of the Central Policy.

“These agreements should be required by the factor of force to make mass deportations. The Trump administration uses all the tools that are at their disposal to try to strengthen the identification and detention of undocumented immigrants, ”VOng said.

President Donald Trump wants to move quickly: he’s recently reassessed Kaleb Vitello, acting director for immigration and customs services, to another position, since immigration arrests and deportations were not as strong as Trump wanted. USA need Deport more than 2,700 people a day to reach their goal 1 million a year.

Doris Mayesner, who held the highest positions in the former Immigration and Naturalization Service in Reagan and Clinton administrations, stated that the Targeted Group Agreements “Basically disappeared in recent years,” because of their reputation for led to “racial profiling and over -introduction.” The agreements were terminated in 2012 during the Obama administration.

“It has changed sharply and rapidly with the new Trump administration,” Maisner said in an interview. “(Agreements) are now on the list of increased actions we see in the implementation of mass deportations.”

The administration is increasingly pressing on state and local authorities to help in immigration arrests traditionally reserved for federal agents, according to February report The Institute of Migration Policy, Washington, District of Columbia, Thank Tank, where Meisner is now director of the US Immigration Policy Program.

Focus on the crime

Along with state and local law enforcement agencies, the Trump administration involved federal agencies that have never played roles in immigration: internal income service, drug control administration and alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, reports a report on the Institute of Migration.

One result of local participation according to report Wong, which is the author in 2019, is that when residents know that local police can call into question and arrest them on charges of immigration, they rarely report crimes when they are victims or witnesses.

The new agreements on the target group allow local law enforcement agencies to investigate immigration violations during daily patrol duties after training. Sherry Larry Kendrick in Oviihi County, Idaho, said he had chosen it because the constituency voters wanted it.

“My voters support President Trump,” Kendrick said. “And of course. I support the President’s mission by 100 percent. I will do anything that is in force to help him. “

Kendrick said he did not expect non-criminal immigrants, such as local dairy farms, will receive any problems from their deputies.

“We didn’t really have a crime,” Kendrick said. “The main thing that bothers me is fentanyl.”

Wong said it is typical for such Counties as Age County, which voted Almost 83 percent for Trump last year to want to combine immigration efforts. But non -criminal immigrants can still pay the price, he said.

“Local officials naively think that they will be focused only on things such as Fentanyl, when most immigration functions are going to identify dissatisfied immigrants, probably without criminal history,” Vong said.

Most officials emphasize the importance of eliminating criminals when calling for more work group agreements.

Declaring the revival program of the working group, the border king Tom Homan stated that he plans to “determine the priority of” criminals, but is also expected to deport people who live here illegally, even if they did not have a criminal record.

“We have promised mass deportation, and this is what we will do,” said Homan Sheriffs at the February Conference.

Juent Hempshire, Kelly Ayott, Republican, said in statement It supports state and local law enforcement agencies that apply for new cooperation agreements. “Criminals who are illegally and are in danger in our country should be delayed and eliminated,” she wrote.

There is no updated interest

Some areas that used the decades ago are not interested in trying it again. IN 2010 19 States had 40 such agreements, including nine in Virginia and seven in Arizona.

There are no transactions in Virginia or Arizona today, although the democratic governor of Arizona Katie Hobbes has signed Executive order On February 25, they call for a certain partnership with federal authorities in four border counties. The goal is to stop more fentanyl and trafficking in human beings, not “without the analysis of people” according to Hobbes.

Arizona sheriffs have heard anything specific about the governor’s plan, – said David Rhodes, Republican Sheriff Yavapai, and the President of the Arizona Sheriffs Association. Yavapai County voted Strongly for Trump. And much of the nation’s fentanyl will be smuggled over Arizona roads, Rhodos said, so he is pleased to cooperate with the Federal Immigration Authorities.

But he is not sure that the target group model wants, if that means that he and his deputies will have to be allocated single people based on appearance to ask for immigration status.

“I don’t know how you could even say, looking at someone that they are illegally or not. So we do not. It is very risky, very close to racial profiling there, ”Rhodos said.

The guidelines published in February say that “racial profiling is simply not something that will endure” in accordance with new working group agreements.

In Virginia, which had the biggest agreements on any state group in 2010, no sheriff has found interest yet, said John Jones, executive director of the Virginia Sheriffs Association. However, the governor of Republicans Glenn Yangkin signed an enforcement order on February 27, which requires the state police to sign an agreement on a working group and local prisons for cooperation with the state working group.

In North Carolina, bill Progress in the State Senate ordered government agencies to cooperate with federal immigration bodies, but do not include specificity.

In the county of Hudson, New Jersey, one of the few urban, convenient for immigrants of democratic areas who had an agreement on the working group in 2010, leaders are not interested in trying again, said the spokeswoman for Mark Kigan. Starting in 2018, the state was small“Directive on Immigrants’ Trust” By sending local authorities not to cooperate with the federal immigration authorities or ask for immigration status during ordinary police work.

“With such abuse, as well as listening to our constituents and supporters working on the immigrant right here in Hudson, we realized that this policy simply is not going to work for our district. So we abandoned the agreement, ”Kigan said.