Cops in Ingram, Texas, worked with federal officials to detain and deport 194 illegal migrants this year so far, a report reveals.
\n\nThe record is prompting complaints from pro-migration media and cheap labor-seeking businesses, but applause from the Department of Homeland Security.
\n\nThe department signed up last year to participate in the 287(g) program, a federal program in which local police departments cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enforce immigration laws and earn federal support dollars in the process. And since signing onto the program, the media claimed that nearly “ten percent” of the town has been taken into custody by ICE officers.
\n\nThe Texas Tribune published a long article about the situation in the town of 1,800 residents that is extremely sympathetic to the town’s illegal migrants, and attacks one officer in particular, officer Jaron Alexander, whom the paper portrays as the town’s ICE enforcer.
\n\nThe paper accuses the officer of “tearing the town apart” by working with ICE to detain lawbreaking illegal migrants.
\n\nThe paper went on to blast the city’s police department for continuing its cooperation with President Trump’s immigration crackdown, especially where it concerns the local business community. The paper notes that several businesses…
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