Indiana attorney general sues sheriff over immigration enforcement
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WISH) — Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has filed a lawsuit against the St. Joseph County sheriff.
During a press conference at the St. Joseph County Courthouse on Friday afternoon, Rokita said the suit claims the sheriff does not notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prior to releasing illegal immigrants.
The lawsuit also says the sheriff does not honor ICE requests to hold an illegal immigrant until agents can take custody of the person.
Rokita says the sheriff ignored requests nine times over six months, and another four times after Rokita first inquired about the practice.
The Republican attorney general said Friday, “Indiana law says that you can’t have any policies that restrict communication between local law enforcement and federal law enforcement. The lawsuit maintains that they, in fact, are, and they either have policies or practices that do that. Secondly, you can’t limit or restrict your polices/practices or local ordinance to anything less than the federal law allows, and we believe that they may be doing that as well.”
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He is refraining from it. He has not stopped anyone from telling anyone else anything.
2. Why should he hold them for ICE when his agency has nothing to do with that? Despite what some rethugs want to believe, one cannot legally hold someone without cause. A 'request' from another agency can be honored or not, they are not under obligation to do so.
3. I believe it says that anything not specifically mentioned in the Constitution falls onto the individual states. I do not know of any law that says locals have to bow to the whims of the federal government in such instances as mentioned in that rethug AG's suit. But, I am not a lawyer.
Basically, this all boils down to, "Waahhh! They won't hold people for us so that we can be mean to them!"
