WSJ: Trump To Give Local Sheriffs ICE Arresting Powers

The Wall Street Journal reports:

For local sheriffs who have long talked tough on immigration, their time has come. Trump’s transition team is already pursuing new spaces they can repurpose into short-term detention centers near large, Democratic-run cities. It is also weighing a broad mix of changes to give sheriffs more power, with rewards for jurisdictions that cooperate, and financial retribution against those in blue states and cities that hold out.

To leverage legions of deputies, the Trump’s team is aiming for a “historic” expansion of a federal program that gives sheriffs and other agencies certain ICE powers, said one person involved in transition planning. Many conservative sheriffs across the U.S., from Texas to California to redder swaths of the northeast, now stand ready to be force multipliers for ICE and its 6,000 agents.

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