Burning Atlanta

What a bunch of scumbags. I may try to find it but, to the best of my belief, Congress had empowered police to notify ICE if they discover an illegal. That's kind of loose and by memory but... Anyway, it's not done because no cop wants to buck his superiors. The good part of this is that we're talking about a sheriif, not a police chief, and sheriffs aren't answerable to anyone except the law and the voters.

Ok, found this. Not exactly what I was looking for but on the right track. Link

The House passed H.R. 6095, to affirm the inherent authority of State and local law enforcement to assist in the enforcement of immigration laws, to provide for effective prosecution of alien smugglers, and to reform immigration litigation procedures, by a yea-and-nay vote of 277 yeas to 140 nays, Roll No. 468.

Tell them to go to hell, sheriff.

Marcia MacKenzie, corporation counsel for Dane County, said she will investigate whether Sheriff Dave Mahoney's practice of notifying federal authorities of undocumented immigrants in his custody violates a County Board resolution prohibiting disclosure of immigrant status, even as state legislators move to end local power to bar reporting of undocumented immigrants.

MacKenzie had not yet begun work on the issue but said in a recent interview it was not clear that either county or state measures could control the behavior of the sheriff as an elected, constitutional officer.

Paul Rusk, chairman of the Dane County Board's Public Protection and Judiciary Committee, asked MacKenzie to research Mahoney's practice after a dramatic hearing last week when scores of people told authorities that the jail intake practice of asking about immigration status, then notifying immigration officials of undocumented inmates, is destroying hard-won trust between the law enforcement and immigrant communities. The sheriff's practice also threatens to overtax the criminal justice system as immigrant defendants insist on going to trial on even minor offenses for fear they will be deported if sent to jail, local defense attorneys told the county committee. Gee, where have I heard that before?