ICE and border patrol should be able to do their job efficiently, with or without 'local support'.
Instead, they are given a daily quota (3000 detentions) that they are pressured to meet, so they are going after anyone they can.
They're advertised as deporting the "worst of the worst" - but instead, wait in courtroom hallways for people going to their immigration hearings (one example). They are at the point of going 'door to door' without the proper warrants to grab who they can. They detain citizens. They carry out 'military-style' raids on apartment buildings.
As for the other (red) states - are they using the same tactics? Hard to say, since the media shows us what they want to show us. (Texas and California lead the
charts in total arrests, TX and FL lead in arrests per capita)
Personally, I think that local law enforcement should help with immigration WHEN it crosses their regular duties. It's not their job to enforce federal laws. They have enough to do locally.
In the end, this all goes back to the main issue of "immigration" - do we want immigrants to come into our country/countries? Do we want to provide a legal path to citizenship (DACA program for example) - or just expel them all at any cost?
Do we want to deter asylum seekers by threatening them with deportation to another country or continent where they could be tortured?
Why was the DHS/ICE budget so dramatically increased in the last spending bill? More arrests, more prisons, more flights?
This is such a 'big story' issue, and sadly, I feel the people in charge currently only have one thought - get them all out, as fast as possible - law-abiding, criminals, people on visas - all of them. (well except for South Africans, they're apparently a-ok).
