The comments have troubled civil liberty and immigration advocates in Ohio, and come amid a larger struggle nationwide over the way overlapping patchworks of jurisdictions are contending with immigration enforcement during the Trump administration. The administration has focused on harsher immigration enforcement at the Mexico border and fast-tracked deportations. AD“I just question why someone who is supposed to be a neutral arbiter of justice [steps] into what is arguably a law enforcement role based on a suspicion. For years, cooperating with ICE or otherwise facilitating its movements was the norm, Vaughan told The Post. There are about 300 out of 3,000 counties that don’t call ICE,” Vaughan said.

Source: Washington Post January 25, 2020 23:21 UTC