A large number of sheriffs from around the country have come to Capitol Hill to protest for DHS funding, including a wall on the Southern border. The Washington Examiner reports:
Angered with efforts by House and Senate Democrats to cut funding for President Trump’s border wall and ICE facilities that hold criminal illegal immigrants, dozens of U.S. sheriffs are storming Capitol Hill Monday to more money to enforce immigration.
“We are at wits end on this,” said Bristol County, Mass. Sheriff Thomas M. Hodgson. “This really is a catastrophe,” he said of the anti-Trump proposal backed by Democrats including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Hodgson is one of 60 key sheriffs meeting with the House Freedom Caucus on the steps of the U.S. Capitol today before hitting individual House and Senate offices to lobby for wall and ICE funding. He spoke to Secrets from the bus transporting him and sheriffs from Arizona, Texas, Massachusetts and Ohio to the Hill.
Over the weekend, Secrets reported that two national sheriffs groups, the National Sheriffs’ Associationand the Major County Sheriffs of America, delivered letters to House and Senate immigration negotiators to warn against Democratic efforts to put a cap on the number of criminal illegal immigrants that can be held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Sheriffs are the last line of defense – accountable to their constituents and dedicated to defending its citizens.
I am greatly encouraged to see the Shiriffs’ taking a very public stand on immigration policy. I support them 1000 percent. They put their life on the line to protect the very people who are deliberately making their job much more dangerous. Liberals are far beyond ungreatful, they are betraying all law enforcement men and women. They are either stupid or just pure EVIL. I vote for the latter.
A cap on the number of criminal illegal immigrants that can be held is fine. Once that limit is reached, deport every one of the newcomers.