Texas sheriff refuses to help feds guard migrant children tent city, saying 'it's wrong'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Washington Post

The El Paso County sheriff prohibited his deputies from working off-duty at a temporary shelter housing migrant children, saying he refused to support the Trump administration’s “unjust” policy of separating families at the border.

Sheriff Richard Wiles received a phone call on Friday from a local Department of Homeland Security representative asking if his deputies could work off-duty at the shelter site, a tent city about 20 miles east of El Paso at the Tornillo-Marcelino Serna port of entry. The camp was housing migrant children who entered the country unaccompanied but expected to receive children who were forcibly separated from their families, Wiles said in an interview with The Washington Post.


Law enforcement officers often moonlight at second jobs, but Wiles has final say in approving off-duty employment for all of his deputies.

“I told them absolutely not. I think it’s wrong,” Wiles said of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy that resulted in the forced separations of families. “It’s not consistent with the values of the sheriff’s office.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-sheriff-refuses-to-help-feds-guard-migrant-children-tent-city-saying-its-wrong/ar-AAyX3Xl?ocid=spartandhp

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I think you're going to see more and more local resistance to this kind of shit

[beachbum bob]

1. awesome and brave of this sheriff

[HAB911]

2. From the bottom up, tear this MF down!

love it

[kysrsoze]

3. I really hope this spreads. No helping the nazis.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. If you've begun to lose the support and willingness of constabulary forces

your days are numbered. This is where the rubber meets the road in every society, where enforcement is located. A system without loyal force to back it up is doomed.

When Czarist Russia fell, 1917, the factory workers and soldiers eventually refused to obey State command.

We've heard questions over the last 18 months about the moral use of force, would an Army commander refuse an illegal order.

Here we are faced with a question that begs an answer: How about an immoral one?

[avebury]

6. We totally should be concerned about the military.

The Pentagon has approved a request for JAG Officers to be sent to act as Prosecutors in Immigration cases. I wonder if any JAG Officers will have the courage to say no.

[AZ8theist]

5. Good on him.

Makes you wonder what kind of animals ICE is hiring to carry out this ethnic cleansing.....

[niyad]

17. I don't think you should insult animals that way. animals do not do this kind of thing.

[AZ8theist]

19. you have a point...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Thank God. At least one sheriff who doesn't want to make a reputation out of being a brute.

Unlike camera hungry sadists like Joe Arpaio, David Clarke or Grady Judd.

[dhill926]

8. Bravo!

[knightmaar]

9. Normally, I cringe when I see a headline with "Texas Sheriff" and "Immigrants" together

But I guess not this time.

[Scalded Nun]

10. The locals do not want this

Support from this comes from the State leadership and ass-wipes like Ted Cruz and other Republican vermin.

[BobTheSubgenius]

11. Of course "It's not consistent with the values of the sheriff's office."

It's not consistent with the values of a decent human being. Even a marginally decent human being.

[Scarsdale]

12. Here is a thought, amid all these

outrageous happenings. Mexico has very strict immigration laws. How come these Hondurans, Guatemalans and others managed to travel the length of Mexico to cause all this disruption at the US border? Was it pre-planned? Is this being done to cause tRump trouble? I loathe the treatment of the people, but why this huge influx, why now? So the US can not afford universal healthcare for the citizens, but suddenly millions of $$$ appear to put up air-conditioned tents, supply food, beds and medical care for the immigrants? What is really behind this?

[Cold War Spook]

13. I think Mexico can do more.

Free bus rides for anyone going to the US.

[haele]

14. Strict immigration is not the same as strict border crossing.

To become a Mexican citizen is difficult. But - if you're visiting or passing through the country without a Visa and don't need anything that requires official identification, it can be done in most places in Mexico; they'll check at the ports of entry, or if you get the attention of the police, but for the most part, travelers are not given a second look - unless they're obviously well off tourists.

Besides, we're the country with that immediately pulls out the paint color pallet strips whenever we see someone to identify them as "acceptable to be out in public", "a probable criminal threat" or "someone who doesn't belong here and needs to be moved on or sent back to where they came from".

Honestly, in Mexico, someone from anywhere in Central or South America can look like a Tio or Tia out on a visit, and travelling in a group is critical to protect individuals, citizens or not, from criminals in the more rural or remote areas of Mexico.

Haele

[mainer]

16. Far fewer border crossings than a few years ago

Also, birth rate in Mexico has dropped sharply, meaning less population pressure for Mexicans to go north.
Central Americans now making up significant numbers. We can best address the influx by helping stabilize those crime-ridden, dangerous countries.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2017/12/05/wheres-the-immigration-crisis-u-s-border-patrol-reports-illegal-border-crossings-at-record-low/#5f8b34244b73

[a la izquierda]

20. No it's not pre-planned.

Do a little research. At worse, watch Which Way Home.

[riversedge]

15. Wise Sheriff

[niyad]

18. thank you, sheriff wiles.