Trump’s Plan to Use Local Cops to Get the Mass Deportation Machine Going, P4
- Shidonna Raven
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BY HENRY GRABAR
November 07, 2024
Source: Slate
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Also in Arizona, the winner of the sheriff’s race in Maricopa County (the nation’s fourth-largest, home of Phoenix) is a career cop named Jerry Sheridan, who was the right-hand man of former Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and would consider himself a “constitutional sheriff”—an extremist view that sheriffs can defy order from courts or state officials if they feel they’re defending the Constitution.
Sheriff Joe is a name even casual observers may remember: Arpaio had a deal with the federal government that turned Phoenix-area cops into immigration enforcers who, according to a 2011 Department of Justice investigation, conducted “sweeps” in Latino neighborhoods to round up undocumented immigrants through traffic stops. During this period of high-stakes racial profiling, Latino drivers were nine times more likely to be stopped than non-Latinos. The Obama administration suspended the county’s federal agreement after that report, and Arpaio was later convicted of criminal contempt, before being pardoned by Donald Trump. A related lawsuit cost Maricopa taxpayers more than $300 million, and the sheriff’s office still operates under federal oversight.
Arpaio’s urban border patrol act was enabled by a contract between local cops and DHS called a 287(g) agreement. Born of the 1996 immigration bill, these arrangements proliferated after the Sept. 11 attacks, and by 2013, local law enforcement was responsible for initiating more than half of non-border deportations.
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