How Sheriffs Might Power Trump's Deportation Machine

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : In November, Trump announced that Tom Homan, the architect of family separation during his first term, would be his pick to see this promise through, as a "border czar."
50% : And there's an advantage to the county sheriff in particular: nearly all of them are elected officers who are not beholden to other officials, even blue-state governors, many of whom have shown a willingness to work with Trump anyway.
50% : They are excluded from the Hatch Act, which bars some government employees from engaging in political activity while on the job, and largely permitted to campaign in uniform.
48% : The following year, the Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) branch of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) set several agency records related to arrests and deportations.
47% : "For that reason, Claremont -- alongside other anti-immigration groups, such as FAIR, whose new "law enforcement advisor" is Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb, a Homan collaborator -- has turned its focus to recruiting and training sheriffs to help execute its agenda.
46% : The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which is part of a network of anti-immigration groups linked to the far-right figure John Tanton, recruited sheriffs to join 287(g) as a way to project a tough-on-crime image.
42% : One of Donald Trump's main campaign promises -- one that was printed on signs at the Republican National Convention and at Trump rallies across the country -- was mass deportation.
5% : But, in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, which expanded the criminal charges for which a person could be subject to deportation.

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