ACLU Seems Upset More Law Enforcement Working With ICE

Why wouldn’t they? Even in majority Democrat cities cops tend to be Republicans and are not thrilled with all the illegal aliens, especially the criminal ones

ACLU of Ohio finds more police departments and sheriffs are signing agreements with ICE

Contracts between Ohio police departments and sheriff’s offices with Immigration and Customs Enforcement have increased since President Donald Trump’s second term in office began.

An American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio records request found 19 counties have agreements ranging from jail and transport services to what are called “287(g) agreements” that essentially deputize local police to enforce immigration law. In central Ohio, Delaware County has an agreement to jail and transport immigrants detained by ICE.

Jocelyn Rosnick with the ACLU said that before 2025, there were only two Ohio counties with these kind of agreements.

“I think there is a real fear that the expansion will continue. I think that we have seen from the administration that there is an environment of pressure to enter into these contracts and agreements,” Rosnick said.

Some counties don’t have these formal agreements, but still work with ICE on some level. The Columbus Dispatch reported the Franklin County Sheriff, through its jail, cooperates with ICE by alerting the agency if an undocumented immigrant is detained even if a criminal case is dismissed or bond is posted.

Here’s the thing: if more cop shops cooperated with ICE they could be handing over the really bad illegals while somewhat protecting the normal illegals. ICE would be happy to get the bad ones, and the liberal politicians would be happy that the standard illegals who got busted for speeding or something low are not getting deported. But, no, the liberals want to protect all, including the murderers, rapists, child predators, etc., which means ICE is going to end up picking them all up when they get word of them.

Oh, and it pays well to work with ICE

Rosnick said there’s also a financial incentive the Trump administration is using to get more counties to comply. She said millions in federal tax dollars flow to these counties.

“If every single jail bed, every single day of the year that was available to ICE, was filled, the financial gain, the money coming in to those locales would be over $54 million in total. That’s a lot of money,” Rosnick said.

And local and county cops get very bad people out of their communities.