Local Sheriff Steps on Feds Toes, ACLU Angry

Posted on May 30, 2006

From an AP article do we get today’s tale of the ACLU’s idiocy. (I swear I could write this as a daily column and never run out of stories…..what is it with these morons???)

In Hamilton, Ohio deputies responded to a call about a fight brewing between “Mexican and American construction workers last week” and ended up detaining 18 men who were “suspected of being illegal aliens”, said Rick Jones, the Sheriff of Butler County. Jones added that none of the men had valid identification papers and that some were carrying obvious forgeries.

The ACLU is claiming that the Sheriff overstepped his bounds and infringed upon duties reserved for Federal Immigration Authorities. You know, the last time I checked it was illegal to have forged documents.

I know this is an old argument, but would the ACLU come to the defense of a bank robber that was caught by local authorities? (Wait…never mind…rhetorical question, as I am fairly certain they would since bank robbery is also a federal crime and the ALCU would probably state that the bank robber was illegally detained by the local cops and denied some right or other.)

What I would like to know is why were these criminal aliens released? They should have been turned over to ICE and deported.

The fact is when local authorities enforce federal law the ACLU gets in a snit, and anytime the ACLU is in a snit you can be sure of two things; Someone somewhere has done something right by America and there is an ACLU lawyer whining.

Share on Facebook

Tweet This Post

» Filed Under ACLU

Trackback URL

Comments

2 Responses to “Local Sheriff Steps on Feds Toes, ACLU Angry”

kerwin_brown on May 30th, 2006 1:00 pm

I believe the House immigration bill requires the local police forces to enforce federal immigration law. That sounds like they can do so now if they choose to. The only grounds I see the ACLU might have is whether or not the police has reasonable grounds for suspicion that the individuals were guilty of breaking immigration laws.
RanbaRal on June 1st, 2006 1:31 pm

A few days late…but I live in Butler County (Hamilton is our county seat) and know people in Hamilton itself. They were probably released because the Sheriff and judges have been holding illegals until they get to trial; instead of the usual pattern of catch, give a sentencing date, release on own recognizance, person never shows for court date. This means they’re running out of room. It’s probably made doubly worse since I-75 and I-71 are two of the central/south american drug groups’ main smuggling arteries to Michigan, Canada, and the Northeast states.

Warren and Hamilton Counties are also starting to hold their illegals and liasoning with Butler because the illegals have been flocking into the areas around Butler. It’s starting to shape into like a county-level alliance of southern Ohio police, which I’m sure ACLU will love too.

It’s not the first time the county Sheriff has butted heads with ACLU and civil rights groups. A few years ago he was being badgered for starting a ‘chaingang’. Nonviolent criminals were used on roadside details like trash cleanup. They had electronic monitoring devices on them that alerted the guards if they went outside a certain radius and tracked their movement while they were on the detail. The civil rights groups were throwing a fit, trying to make it look like forced labor. It was all volunteer and they actually had a backlist of guys who wanted on it. Then before that he was catching flack for starting a temporary prison camp to hold overflow criminals while the prison was being expanded (or a new one being built; I can’t remember which now).

He’s weathered the storm before and has the support of the majority of the people. As long as he keeps the arrests legit I don’t see that changing any time soon.