Comments on: Cecil County Sheriff Joins ICE Program to Turn Over Illegals, Won’t House Detainees at Jail; Sheriff Faces Guard Shortage https://ceciltimes.com/2019/05/cecil-county-sheriff-joins-ice-program-to-turn-over-illegals-wont-house-detainees-at-jail-sheriff-faces-guard-shortage/ News and Views for Cecil County and the Eastern Shore of Maryland Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:21:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Tim Rothermel https://ceciltimes.com/2019/05/cecil-county-sheriff-joins-ice-program-to-turn-over-illegals-wont-house-detainees-at-jail-sheriff-faces-guard-shortage/#comment-70793 Thu, 31 Oct 2019 01:31:15 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=5471#comment-70793 The 287g agreement is an unnecessary addition to Cecil County. It needlessly frightens the growing immigrant community and discourages them from coming forward to assist in law enforcement efforts for the real violent criminals in our area. Let’s say someone in the immigrant community is robbed at gunpoint, but they are afraid to come forward. Now a violent criminal walks among us because the sheriff’s office has taken this step to break the trust of the immigrant community, thereby putting us all at greater risk.

Also, this program is done purely at the expense of the Cecil County tax payers. The Department of Homeland Security has a budget upwards of $18 billion dollars and can enforce their priorities on deportations just fine with their own money. Why should we, a small rural community with limited funds, subsidize one of the largest departments in the federal government?

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