'Enough is enough': Mariposa County Sheriff wants to work with ICE?

MARIPOSA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Mariposa County Sheriff is asking changes to beryllium made to the California Senate Bill 54, which would let them to enactment with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Sheriff Jeremy Briese announced Wednesday.

In a social media station shared Wednesday, Sheriff Jeremy Briese called for a reexamination of SB54 since helium says it "undermines my committedness to the community, arsenic it limits practice betwixt section instrumentality enforcement and national migration authorities."

SB54, besides known arsenic the California Values Act, restricts section instrumentality enforcement from sharing accusation with ICE. Briese says the measure prevents national agents from entering section jails.

"This instrumentality requires that my bureau and I knowingly merchandise criminals backmost into our community,Regardless of your governmental views, SB54 is WRONG and needs to beryllium changed. This is not astir immigration…this is astir being forced to knowingly merchandise wanted criminals backmost into our communities. While these cases don’t hap each time successful Mariposa County, they bash occur. As an illustration of navigating this flawed legislation, our bureau precocious arrested a registered enactment offender, known to beryllium wanted by migration authorities, however, we were forced to merchandise the idiosyncratic backmost into our community."

Wednesday's connection is not the archetypal clip officials from the region reason the bill. Briese says the Mariposa County Board of Supervisors passed a solution taking a stance successful absorption to SB54 successful 2018, declaring that "Mariposa County does not represent a sanctuary jurisdiction."

"The existent concern with SB54 is troubling to maine personally and keeps maine awake astatine night. ICE is the lone instrumentality enforcement bureau not allowed to participate our section jails owed to this legislation. This places an undue load connected the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Office unit by preventing the coordination indispensable to support our assemblage safe," said Briese.

Briese says allowing ICE to marque interaction with individuals already successful the county's jailhouse strategy would not besides beryllium safer, but besides much controlled than conducting ICE raids oregon attempting to way down criminals aft being released -he says that way, these individuals are successful a unafraid environment, their identities tin beryllium verified, due enactment tin beryllium taken and the hazard of unsafe nationalist confrontations could beryllium diminished.

"Together, we tin guarantee the information of our communities by making definite instrumentality enforcement has the tools and resources indispensable to support each citizens effectively. Enough is enough," said Briese.

Briese encouraged the nationalist to telephone their representatives to explicit their concerns and advocator for changes to the law.