The Washington Post reveals that Trump recruited sheriffs to arrest illegal immigrants

The one who was president of the United States, Donald Trump, recruited sheriffs and other local security forces to arrest undocumented, which caused terror in migrant communities in different parts of the country, according to the newspaper The Washington Post.

The newspaper recounted the scope of the actions of the Trump Administration (2017-2021) to detain and deport undocumented immigrants living in the US, in some cases for yearss.

According to this information, Trump resorted to a controversial federal agreement called 287 (g), which gives law enforcement the ability to question and detain undocumented immigrants, a task that normally falls to federal authorities..

Since the creation of that agreement, migrant defense groups have denounced that the alliance between federal and local authorities terrorizes migrant communities and puts the undocumented in a defenseless situation since they cannot ask the police for help for fear of be stopped.

The scope of that 287 (g) agreement was limited in 2012 by then-President Barack Obama (2009-2017), but after arriving at the White House in 2017 Trump began recruiting sheriffs known for their tough policy towards migrants, according to dozens of internal government emails obtained by the Post.

Specifically, in February 2017, the then Secretary of Homeland Security, John F. Kelly, sent instructions to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), in charge of detaining migrants within the United States, to expand the agreement 287 (g) “to the highest degree possible.”

Right away, ICE began requesting meetings with sheriffs and other local agencies to which it sent propaganda materials to ask them to join the agreement., according to the Post.

This policy implemented by Trump joins others that were especially harsh on immigrants and refugees, such as the separation of families who crossed the border with Mexico irregularly..