Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently announced a new program for co-opting local sheriffs into deporting immigrants called the “Warrant Service Officer Program” (WSO). Misleadingly, ICE has messaged this program as a way to ‘circumvent sanctuary policies.’ However, this program is limited in its scope and in fact many sanctuary laws already fully prevent WSOs. ICE has always been quick to deceive the public if it will help the agency expand its enforcement reach, and this new program is no exception. ICE’s desperation to attack sanctuary policies and to try to re-create the old days of Secure Communities demonstrates the power of our resistance. This new program has all the same problems of entangling local agencies with immigration enforcement, plus the additional baggage of partnering with the fanatically cruel agency that ICE has shown itself to be.
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