A
New York sheriff has announced that it will be reversing its sanctuary policy
just ahead of President-Elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. By John Binder,
12/27/16
Suffolk County Sheriff Vincent
DeMarco announced that his county will no longer demand a judge’s order before
detaining an illegal immigrant wanted by federal immigration officials, a major
shift away from its previous sanctuary city policy, according to Newsday.
DeMarco said his policy
reversal is not because of the incoming Trump administration’s expected legal
fight against sanctuary city policies. Instead, he said the shift came after
careful “legal analysis.”
Already, between
December 1 and December 21, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had taken
seven illegal immigrants into custody who were living in Suffolk County.
DeMarco echoed Trump’s
call to deport illegal immigrants who have been accused and convicted of crimes
in the country, saying “I do believe this is good public policy because it
focuses on criminals.”
“We’re talking about
people who entered the country illegally and have committed crimes and have
been convicted of crimes,” DeMarco continued.
Suffolk County Executive
Steve Bellone also supported the new, Trump-like measures, saying “I opposed
open-ended detainer requests because, among other things, they placed an
enormous burden on local government to spend millions on incarceration to cover
unfunded mandates.”
“However, Suffolk County
works closely with federal law enforcement, and a limited, 48-hour detainer
represents a step in the right direction,” Bellone told Newsday.
The move comes just a
month before Trump is set to be inaugurated and is expected to take down
sanctuary city policies, with incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions likely to
set legal battles with locales that refuse to comply with federal immigration
law.
Dan Cadman with the
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) told Newsday that with Trump’s planned fight
against illegal immigration, he expects more cities and counties to reverse
their sanctuary policies.
“I mean, let’s face it .
. . a new administration is coming in and the new administration has said,
unambiguously, they’re going to take an entirely different and harder approach
toward sanctuaries,” Cadman told Newsday. “I don’t think that many
counties and many county sheriffs and some police departments want to be between
the hammer and the anvil.”
John Binder is a contributor
for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
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