US sheriffs decry White House effort to hire away local law enforcement for Ice | Trump administration

The aggressive push of the White House to hire federal immigration agents causes friction with local sheriffs – even those who support Donald Trump’s expulsion program.

More than a dozen American sheriffs and law enforcement associations complained that immigration and the application of American customs (ICE) tried to poach deputies and local officers as ice develops quickly.

“It is not very professional and contrary to ethics,” said Gardy Judd, the Sheriff of Polk, Florida, last month, last month after his deputies received recruitment emails.

Ice used a list of emails that sheriff had provided in the context of its partnership supporting Trump’s deportations; Messages rated from recruits could receive a hiring bonus of $ 50,000.

“It is right for us to go to the police and set up a recruitment stand in their hall,” said Judd, a republican who authorized his deputies to carry out immigration arrests.

Judd and other sheriffs have spoken while the Trump administration launched its massive recruitment efforts to hire 10,000 new ice officers and 3,000 border patrol agents, supported by unprecedented funding of $ 170 billion for immigration application activities.

The anger at conservative sheriffs, generally the allies close to Trump, underlines the challenges that the White House is confronted because it makes deportations and the expansion of ice an absolute priority, sometimes to the detriment of other interests of application of the law.

Federal agents that normally manage children’s mistreatment, money laundering, fraud and other serious crimes have been diverted to the application of immigration, targeting undocumented persons with civil violations, Reuters reported in March.

Last month, the administration moved to temporarily reallocate more than 100 FBI agents to carry out night patrols in Washington DC, even if FBI officers generally have little experience in patrol or immigration.

The counterpou of Judd and other sheriffs in Florida was remarkable because the State directed the nation in 287 (g) of the agreements, which allows local law services to help the ice directly. Immigrant rights have long criticized these partnerships as harmful to public security because they make communities of immigrants less likely to report crimes or help police in surveys.

Some of the most vocally supported sheriffs have criticized ICE recruitment. Wayne Ivey, the sheriff in the county of Brevard, in Florida – who made the headlines in June for having threatened to hospitalize and “kill” the anti -glossy demonstrators – told Wesh 2 News last month that the targeting of local deputies by Ice was “on the back” and “frustrated by each sheriff”.

Judd said that his department paid for deputies to be trained as immigration officers, allowing them to stop and encroach undocumented people for ice. This arrangement gave ICE access to the contact details of its deputies.

“You have taken government documents that we have filled to help you, to recruit our people that we have trained on our penny to support you. It is with a low lance,” he said. “I have never seen that before.”

Recruitment emails for sheriff deputies were signed by Madison Sheahan, deputy director of the ICE, who previously was assistant to Kristi Noem, Homeland Security Secretary, when Noem was governor of southern Dakota, ABC News reported. Sheahan, 28, has no previous experience on the application of immigration and has alienated career managers within ice, according to a recent history of the Atlantic plunging into internal conflicts to the agency.

“As a person who currently supports ice in the 287 (G) program, you understand the unique responsibility that we carry to protect our communities and maintain the federal law,” said Sheahan recruitment email. “Ice actively recruits agents like you.”

Judd said that ice representatives in Florida were not involved in recruitment and had apologized. He blamed Sheahan, saying that she and his DC colleagues did not recognize the misstep: “They doubled. They did not apologize. They didn’t say it was a bad shape. It made me even more angry. It just shows his lack of maturity, “he said. “The illustration for me is that they are probably devious and nonsense with the way they manage the rest of the organization.”

However, Judd said: “We are not going to back up in the mission of President Trump. We will continue to help ice, because we are professional, unlike the ice deputy.”

During the first five months of the year, the Judd office arrested more than 200 undocumented mirrors for the riding in the county, according to the newspaper Ledger.

The National Association of Sheriffs, which represents the sheriffs across the country, has also raised concerns about the recruitment of ice. The association’s executive director said last month that it would be difficult for local ministries to compete with the bonus of $ 50,000 and other incentives, which could fall on agencies with the staff.

Judd, however, said that he was not concerned about the fact that his deputies join the ice. He said that he suspected ongoing anti-glacial demonstrations hampered recruitment: “It is a very difficult and dangerous job … and you must be comfortable and sure that the community supports you. When people see how the ice is unjustly targeted, even if they want to be in the application of the law, they do not want to be in this branch. “

Scott Shuchart, a former senior ice official under Biden, who expressed his concerns about the recruitment of Trump, said that it seemed “really disrespectful” to poach sheriffs that have invested their own funding to support ice through 287 (g) agreements: “They already take the sheriff deputies which are supposed to keep the community and not to help do not make the ice Ice to avoid making ice cream now knowing that you do not make ice cream for not making ice cream now so as not to make ice cream now knowing that you do not make ice cream now so as not to make ice cream to know now so as not to make ice cream to know now so as not to make ice cream so as not to make ice cream now knowing not to make ice so as not to make ice cream Ice not to make ice cream to what is not the exception of ice. Treat a partner.

On Tuesday, the American Ministry of Internal Security announced a reimbursement program for local law enforcement agencies for the salaries of 287 (G) trained officers and that the departments would be “eligible for monetary performance prices according to the successful location of illegal foreigners”.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary of the DHS, said in a statement that Ice recruited “local law enforcement, veterans and our 287 (G) partners who have already been trained and have experience in providing the law”. More than $ 500 million in Trump’s major budget bill would expand 287 (G) partnerships, she added.

McLaughlin also said that Sheahan, the assistant ice director, had experience to apply the law of her previous work as secretary of the Louisiana fauna and peaches, and had contributed to “these attacks on leading negotiations” for more than 900,287 (G), “these attacks against the leadership style of Madison Sheahan have no basis and rooted in sexism. [She] is a workplace, a strong testamentary executor and a responsible leader who, with [acting Ice director] Todd Lyons directs the men and women of the application of ice laws to reach the mandate of the American people to target, stop and expel illegal criminal foreigners. »»

The effort to recruit sheriffs “shows how both cruel and reckless This administration is with regard to the police,” added Juan Cuba, executive director of the action of the sheriff’s responsibility, a group that defends criminal justice reforms.

“It is a total contempt for one of the greatest problems that the local police have, which is recruitment and retention. These challenges are exacerbated by the approach of the administration, but they do not care. What they care is to hit these artificial quotas,” he said, noting that Trump’s requests for 3,000 arrests of immigration per day. “It is less public security and more simply to feed this mass expulsion machine.”

Certain sheriffs are opposed to efforts so that their deputies act as immigration officers, because they already feel extended or care to erode the confidence of the public, noted Cuba. But to oppose it publicly can have consequences, he said, noting that after the sheriff of the county of Broward said that he did not want the deputies to arrest people for violation of civil immigration, the Florida Attorney General threatened to take measures to move him.

“We see the silence of police and sheriffs due to political threats,” he said. “It is very alarming that civil servants have the impression of not being able to raise concerns.”