#sheriffs

[undergroundusa]

"We the People, don’t need to wait for our corrupt federally elected officials to overcome their Deep States masters and pass meaningful election reform laws that actually defend the sanctity of the ballot box. All we need are sheriffs with balls…"

ORIGINAL CONTENT: https://www.undergroundusa.com/p/there-is-one-authority-that-can-save

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[odinsblog]

It was something that really began to happen when the United States decided that it would interlock the immigration system with the criminal legal system. So some people call it the criminal immigration system, which is not a term that I coined. It's something that immigration law experts coined.

But when Congress passed a certain series of laws in the 1980s and 90s, what they wanted to do was create a system in which people who were accused of crimes, particularly at the time, drug crimes, would be able to be immediately deported in a way that was basically faster. So they didn't have to be convicted. So normally, if you're accused of a crime, you have a right to a trial, then you might be convicted or acquitted, or you might plea out.

But if you are determined to be undocumented, you can actually be put into deportation proceedings before anyone brings you to trial. So you just are arrested and charged, and you can go immediately into deportation proceedings. And it turned out that this was a pretty effective way for police to interact with the immigration system.

And sheriffs became a lynch point originally because they run county jails.

So county jails are kind of the first stop if you're arrested. If you are unfortunate enough to be arrested, you will go through the county jail, at which point they take your ID, your fingerprints, right?

They take a variety of information. And sheriffs kind of became really useful because they were in the jail already, so they could interview people, ask them where they were from, ask them if they had proof of citizenship, and then help ICE put them into deportation proceedings. And alongside that, sheriffs were also able to make some money by housing people awaiting deportation in their jails.

That's also the benefit for them. The federal government houses about 25% of immigrants in detention in county jails right now. And they pay these sheriffs a per diem.

So they get paid sort of per day to keep people in their jails. And it's one of the ways that sheriffs are able to use that jail kind of as a political tool, right, to make money for their county.

So under Trump, two things happened. One was that anti-immigration groups, so I mentioned the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR. That was a group that was already in existence.

They are an anti-immigrant group. And they began to email sheriffs, especially sheriffs that they knew were kind of constitutional sheriffs or in the far right sheriff atmosphere and say, hey, would you like to help the Trump administration deport more people? And many of them said, sure.

And so using this anti-immigrant group, the Trump administration recruited more sheriffs to join a program called 287G. And 287G is a federal program that essentially deputizes sheriffs and their deputies to act as immigration agents. So under Trump, many, many more sheriffs joined this 287G program.

Now, the 287G program is a bit interesting because it doesn't include any funding for the sheriffs, but it is something that sheriffs used to say that they were tough on immigration.

-Jessica Pishko, The Unchecked Power Of Sheriffs

[poptartregreteva]

daily reminder that

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

A Louisiana sheriff’s deputy who admitted to beating a detainee in a jailhouse laundry room after ordering him to strip naked, bend over, and cough during the booking process has learned his fate.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-watch/deputies-fracture-detainees-eye-socket-in-jailhouse-laundry-room-beating

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[ukdailymail]

Florida cops find missing elderly woman with Alzheimer's in swamp

[mrjinx87]

Happy Halloween! 🎃💀👻🍁🍂

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Children (1980, Max Kalmanowicz)

10/24/23

[ajunicetryagain]

Say it with me: Local elections matter

[mulderscully]

"The Ilama scene was a happy accident! I knew that if I laughed a potentially great and spontaneous moment would be lost." — KYLE MACLACHLAN

[petsincollections]

Silver City, Days of '49

Sheriff John E. Casey, in costume, poses with a burro for the parade.

Silver City Museum

New Mexico's Digital Collections

[thesetwoutes]

Since we're handing out nonfiction recommendations, here are two by friends of mine:

The Power of the Badge: Sheriffs and Inequality in the United States, by Emily Farris and Mirya Holman. A book that looks closely at the rarely-studied 3000+ sheriffs elected in the United States, looking at the beliefs of sheriffs and their performance. Offers some chilling results for anybody who believes in accountability for public officials, democratic legitimacy, and civil rights.

Courts Unmasked: Civil Legal System Reform and COVID-19 by Alyx Mark. Considers the way in which power is exercised in judicial administration to shape public experiences and access to justice. Focuses on the ways that courts responded to the pandemic to examine how effective systemic reforms can be.

Two really fantastic books written by friends of mine that are very rigorous but also very accessible.

find local theater near you. go to local theater near you. read plays. read non-fiction books. read fiction books written over one hundred years ago. go to the movie theater. watch movies with subtitles. watch slow movies. watch challenging movies. watch movies made for less than five million dollars. watch a documentary. watch television shows that have no fandoms. watch classic television shows. watch television shows starring actors that have no social media. read criticism of your favorite media frequently. think critically about your favorite media often. consume media made for adults.

[maezanilla]

I miss her……..

[clemsfilmdiary]

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973, Sam Peckinpah)

8/6/23

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