FREDRICK COUNTY, MD – In the wake of a new state law out of Maryland prohibiting state and local authorities from entering into 287(g) cooperation agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), various sheriffs from counties within the state have asserted they’ll continue to assist ICE without entering into such official agreements now prohibited within Maryland.
As previously reported in Law Enforcement Today, Democrat Governor Wes Moore signed into law a culmination of two pieces of legislation brought forth in Maryland via HB444 and SB245 which has now outlawed the practice of state and local law enforcement entering into 287(g) agreements with ICE.
ICE’s 287(g) program has been in effect nearly two decades, which the agreements forged between the agency and state and local law enforcement allows ICE agents “to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight.”
Upon Governor Moore’s signing of the new law prohibiting such agreements with ICE earlier in February, former Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan predicted that law enforcement within the state is simply “going to ignore” the enacted legislation.
“Governor Moore signed an emergency bill to prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE,” Hogan stated during a conference in Washington, DC, on February 19th.
And, you know, all the local law enforcement officers are saying, ‘We’re going to ignore that because we’re required to work with them.’”
Based upon recent statements made by Fredrick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins, it seems like Hogan’s predictions were accurate, as Sheriff Jenkins is reportedly one of nine sheriffs within the state who intend to continue working with ICE, just sans the official agreements traditionally used.
“We can continue to work with ICE without necessarily being in the program,” Sheriff Jenkins told Fox News earlier in February.
“We can still do the 48-hour holds on individuals with detainers, we can still contact ICE to let them know if an individual is about to be released with a detainer, we can also provide arrestee lists to ICE so they can review and check it.”
Sheriff Jenkins explained that the legislation passed in Maryland was tantamount to a kneejerk reaction under the misguided notion that streetside apprehensions by ICE have been commonplace in his state.
“This was all passed because of the current administration, and the perception of what everybody is watching on television, is also what is happening here. It's just the opposite,” Sheriff Jenkins stated.
However, Sheriff Jenkins warns that if law enforcement in his state refuses to cooperate with ICE, it’ll result in the very roadside apprehensions Democrat officials have been vilifying, saying, “What we're now going to see as we release these criminals over time, and we don't turn them over to ICE in our jails, ICE is going to come out on the street to make their apprehensions.”
As previously reported in Law Enforcement Today, Democrat Governor Wes Moore signed into law a culmination of two pieces of legislation brought forth in Maryland via HB444 and SB245 which has now outlawed the practice of state and local law enforcement entering into 287(g) agreements with ICE.
ICE’s 287(g) program has been in effect nearly two decades, which the agreements forged between the agency and state and local law enforcement allows ICE agents “to delegate to state and local law enforcement officers the authority to perform specified immigration officer functions under the agency’s direction and oversight.”
Upon Governor Moore’s signing of the new law prohibiting such agreements with ICE earlier in February, former Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan predicted that law enforcement within the state is simply “going to ignore” the enacted legislation.
“Governor Moore signed an emergency bill to prohibit local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE,” Hogan stated during a conference in Washington, DC, on February 19th.
And, you know, all the local law enforcement officers are saying, ‘We’re going to ignore that because we’re required to work with them.’”
Based upon recent statements made by Fredrick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins, it seems like Hogan’s predictions were accurate, as Sheriff Jenkins is reportedly one of nine sheriffs within the state who intend to continue working with ICE, just sans the official agreements traditionally used.
“We can continue to work with ICE without necessarily being in the program,” Sheriff Jenkins told Fox News earlier in February.
“We can still do the 48-hour holds on individuals with detainers, we can still contact ICE to let them know if an individual is about to be released with a detainer, we can also provide arrestee lists to ICE so they can review and check it.”
Sheriff Jenkins explained that the legislation passed in Maryland was tantamount to a kneejerk reaction under the misguided notion that streetside apprehensions by ICE have been commonplace in his state.
“This was all passed because of the current administration, and the perception of what everybody is watching on television, is also what is happening here. It's just the opposite,” Sheriff Jenkins stated.
However, Sheriff Jenkins warns that if law enforcement in his state refuses to cooperate with ICE, it’ll result in the very roadside apprehensions Democrat officials have been vilifying, saying, “What we're now going to see as we release these criminals over time, and we don't turn them over to ICE in our jails, ICE is going to come out on the street to make their apprehensions.”
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