Frank Newgent
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The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Neighbors
Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town.
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ICE had (and still has?) a "stipend and reimbursement" carrot for participating
police and sheriff departments. $100,000 here, $7,500 here, $7,500 there, payments to
cover salaries, free training, -- a pretty sweet deal for small-town cop culture. Sorry
I can't post links, but a quick trip to ice.gov/287g will be enough to get started.
Things must be pretty bad if that lawman's department can't find some way to soothe
his conscience.
police and sheriff departments. $100,000 here, $7,500 here, $7,500 there, payments to
cover salaries, free training, -- a pretty sweet deal for small-town cop culture. Sorry
I can't post links, but a quick trip to ice.gov/287g will be enough to get started.
Things must be pretty bad if that lawman's department can't find some way to soothe
his conscience.
shemp
a flimsy character...perfidious and despised
He got his Judas money. I'm sure that will make him feel better.Or free on ProPublica
The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Neighbors
Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town.
◊◊◊◊ you. There should be no forgiveness for you. I hope you spend the rest of your life rotting in prison.
Frank Newgent
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The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Neighbors
Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town.
Among the people who called Jordan, the mayor, to complain was his onetime high school classmate Neal Secor, who describes himself as “one of the most conservative guys you’ll ever meet.” His family business, a cluster of rental cabins called Waltonia on the River, was nearly destroyed by the flood. He was struggling to rebuild. He says that in the spring, in two separate stops, the Ingram police detained four of his workers and handed them over to ICE — the second set as they returned from a job repairing the docks at a nearby youth camp, a favor Secor was trying to do for a neighbor.
Secor says Jordan’s defense was simple: You voted for this. They’d all voted for this.
“Let me tell you something,” Secor says he told Jordan. “I didn’t vote for this. I voted to get the bad guys out.” The two employees detained coming back from the youth camp were like family, his friends and co-workers for over a decade. “There’s still a lot of bad guys here,” he continued. “These guys aren’t them.”
The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Neighbors
Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town.
Probably still would have left the US almost a couple years ago now. Even if Albert Schweitzer himself had been president.
Awfully glad I'm not there, it would be hard not to do something stupid if people that I knew were being abducted.
bruto
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He deported ten percent of his town, and admits at times that he knows what he's doing is horrible, but it's all their fault. If I were the parent of the disabled child I just threw to the wolves, I'd be upset too, but...I'm not. Don't blame us wolves.
The town decided to sign up so the police become ICE deputies. The incentives for a small force are significant, I think the article said they were able to double the size of the force (from 2 to 4 patrol officers). His job is to enforce the law, including now immigration law.. He does at least appear to have a conscience, and has turned a blind eye andreleased detainees on occasion. One can see the vulnerability if law isn't enforced consistently, it opens up to favouritism or corruption.
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That isn't that I agree with the way it is enforced, detaining everyone would seem unnecessary, and those with families and jobs should be able to regularise the situation.
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Gulliver Foyle
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Yes Secor, you did vote for this. You knew full well that "the bad guys" meant anybody with a darker complexion than northern European. You thought it would be a great way to keep your employees' wages down and end any talk of unionising.