Imagine local sheriffs who actually comply with federal immigration law. What a concept.
Perhaps The New Yorker magazine is more comfortable with local police officials who defy such laws because their jurisdiction is in sanctuary cities. However, when faced with the reality that many sheriffs around the nation are more than willing to comply with federal law in order to protect their citizens, the New Yorker finds this problematic as you can see in their Thursday story by Jessica Pishko, “How Sheriffs Might Power Trump’s Deportation Machine.”
Pishko finds it highly problematic that local sheriffs are willing to cooperate with the deportation policies of incoming President Donald Trump and his designated no-nonsense “Border Czar” Tom Homan.
Both Trump and Homan have indicated that local law enforcement would be involved in carrying out the…
