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A Washington Post piece describes the vast majority of sheriffs across the U.S. as being aligned with President Donald Trumps immigration enforcement measures:

A week ago Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that any city that refuses to share information with the federal government about immigrants could lose federal funding. Called sanctuary cities and states, these geographic entities resisting the Trump administrations efforts to increase immigration enforcement have gotten a great deal of news coverage.

But what about their opposites the local governments eager to enforce the new immigration mandates? County sheriffs, who are largely elected via popular vote, play an important and often ignored role in immigration enforcement and are more likely to support federal enforcement efforts than comparable local officials.

According to Mirya Holman with Tulane University and Emily Farris of Texas Christian University, 85 percent of sheriffs believe there should be more federal money spent on enforcing immigration and closing the U.S.-Mexico Border.

About 70 percent of sheriffs said they supported law enforcement being able to ask about a persons immigration status.

Although American sheriffs prefer Trumps immigration enforcement measures, the researchers found that they did not hold views that were personally directed towards immigrants, themselves.

While immigration arrests of criminal illegal aliens continue to rise under Trump thus far, the number of sheriffs signing onto federal-local agreements to cooperate with federal immigration agents has increased as well.

In sanctuary jurisdictions, like the New York City, the NYPD released nearly 180 criminal illegal aliens back onto the streets in the first four months of 2017, Breitbart Texas reported.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart Texas. Follow him on Twitter at@JxhnBinder.

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WaPo: Sheriffs 'Enthusiastic' About Helping Deport Illegal Immigrants - Breitbart News

An illegal immigrant in New Jersey managed to get arrested for burglary twice last week after forgetting his correction center intake papers in the second burgled home, leading to his arrest during an in-progress third burglary.

Douglas Baudriz-Diaz was first arrested May 22 after a witness saw him break into a South Plainfield, N.J. home at 1:30 a.m. He arrived at Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center (MCACC) at 8:30 a.m., according to a press release posted on the South Plainfield Police Department Facebook page. Baudriz-Diaz was released without bail later that day due to a January Bail Reform Act passed in New Jersey.

With the old bail guidelines, he would have been held in the MCACC with a bail between $10,000-$50,000 due to the degree of his charges, the police report said.

Police called the illegal immigrants release unfortunate.

Intended to lessen the strain on New Jerseys prisons, the January bail law created a risk assessment tool to determine if a defendant is likely to either not appear for trial or commit another crime. Offenders deemed not likely are released. The assessment takes into account the offenders age, past convictions and whether the offense was violent, among other factors. It doesnt consider race or ethnicity, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

The assessment apparently also ignores immigration status, as Baudriz-Diaz was being held on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement warrant due to being in the country illegally.

Police said he is suspected of four other burglaries in the South Plainfield area.

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The Baltimore County Council is taking up a controversial measure that takes aim at sanctuary cities, which prompted a large protest Tuesday in Towson.

Democratic leaders in Baltimore County, activists and immigrant-rights advocates rallied outside the old courthouse to protest County Bill 32-17, which would require the Baltimore County Detention Center to screen for illegal immigrants.

"Ladies and gentleman, this is a time for real leaders to stand up against hate and bigotry," Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said. "Not only is this bill unconstitutional, it's Un-American."

The protesters called the measure flawed and racist.

"That is not the Baltimore County that so many of the friends and neighbors that are here today support and live and breathe every day," said Elizabeth Alex, a regional director for CASA. "I think the introduction of this bill on May 1 signaled for a lot of folks a red flag that this is not the country I want to live in."

The protest came a week after the Trump administration released its proposed budget that essentially rewrites federal rules in order to pressure so-called sanctuary cities to help enforce immigration laws. Jurisdictions that don't comply risk losing millions of federal dollars.

The protest was staged two hours ahead of a public work session on the legislation, which is backed by the three Republicans on the County Council, including Todd Crandell, who said the bill is modeled after ones already adopted in Frederick and Harford counties.

"The 287G program has been around since 1996, in various forms," Crandell said. "It's a model that's very simple, (there's) no cost to implement to the taxpayers of Baltimore County, and will increase the level of public safety in our communities."

Crandell said the bill calls for teaming up with federal officials to enforce existing immigration laws.

"This isn't about detaining people beyond a release date," Crandell said. "(It) simply

would train Department of Corrections officers in Baltimore County, in our detention center, to assess the immigration status of someone who has committed or allegedly committed a crime egregious enough to be placed in the Department of Corrections."

Crandell told 11 News that he currently doesn't have enough votes to pass the bill, let alone by a veto-proof margin. The county executive has threatened a veto.

The bill goes up for a final vote on Monday.

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Republican lawmakers are trying for the third time to pass an immigration bill that is considered a key issue for President Trump, reports The Hill.

Called 'Kate's Law,' it is named after 32-year-old Kate Steinle who was shot and killed on July 1, 2015, in San Francisco by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported multiple times, notes the Washington Times.

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Democrats had previously blocked the bill in 2015 and 2016; last year, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid explained that the move had to do with the expense and burden of imposing what he called "unnecessary mandatory-minimum sentences."

The current Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Texas Senator Ted Cruz, requires "a 10-year maximum prison term for an alien who re-enters after being denied admission, excluded, deported, or removed on three or more prior occasions."

SEE ALSO: Texas lawmaker threatens to shoot colleague over immigration fight

It also establishes "a 5-year mandatory minimum prison term for an alien who re-enters after being removed following a conviction for an aggravated felony or following two or more prior convictions for illegal re-entry."

The future of the Senate bill is uncertain, at least in part, because it has been folded into broader legislation involving border security.

As Lynn Tramonte, deputy director of the liberal group America's Voice, pointed out to The Hill, "...the more radical they make their bill, the less likely it is to pass."

SEE ALSO: How Trump travel ban impacts number of US visas issued

Trump has maintained a hardline stance on illegal immigration since his campaign; he even invoked Kate Steinle's name during his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, notes KRON.

While her brother has spoken out against Trump's use of her name and his immigration policies, her parents are reportedly suing the federal government for a number of reasons related to her death.

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The Bay States U.S. attorneys office has launched a media blitz on the immigration front, firing off a torrent of press releases touting his offices work as the Trump administration pushes prosecutors to prioritize illegal immigration cases.

The newfound flood of attention comes weeks after Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to the countrys 94 acting U.S. attorneys, telling them to focus on aggressively prosecuting such offenses, including those tied to gang and drug cases.

Acting U.S. Attorney William Weinreb acknowledges his office is still ramping up its immigration caseload, which aides say so far is similar to the roughly three dozen or so cases it had prosecuted to this point last year under then-U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz.

But the offices promotion machine has been in full gear. During the last month, Weinrebs press office has sent 12 separate press releases on cases of previously deported defendants being charged, convicted or sentenced for illegal re-entry, a common immigration offense. Just last Friday, it sent three news releases in seven minutes, spotlighting cases that carry a maximum sentence of two years.

Under Ortiz, the office sent 10 press releases on such charges over her final five years.

I think in the weeks or months to come, youre going to see those numbers increase, as well the numbers of other kinds of immigration crime, Weinreb told the Herald, adding that hes designated a prosecutor to handle illegal-re-entry cases as part of adjustments within the office. We do make sure we publicize our efforts so the cases that we do bring will have a deterrent effect.

Nearly five months after Ortiz resigned, President Trump has yet to name any permanent U.S. attorneys.

But Weinreb insisted his push to highlight the offices efforts on immigration is not a bid to curry favor with the Department of Justice and win the post.

We dont bring cases for the sake of publicizing them or publicizing them for any reason other than to deter others, Weinreb said. Were a public service agency. The community has the right to know what were doing. They have a right to know whether or not we are pursuing the DOJ priorities.

Making good on a Trump campaign promise to more strictly enforce immigration law, Sessions wrote in his April memo that illegal-re-entry cases should be a priority, particularly in gang cases.

In Massachusetts, Weinreb said, that will include tacking immigration offenses onto a charging docket when appropriate, even if it already includes far more serious drug or violent offenses.

Michael Sullivan, a former Massachusetts U.S. attorney who has made recommendations for the next U.S. attorney to the White House, said hes not surprised by the heightened focus on immigration cases, given the priorities Trump set.

Messaging is important, especially if you want to change behavior. You put them on notice, Sullivan said. I think (Weinreb) is doing whats expected of a U.S. attorney.

Brian T. Kelly, a former federal prosecutor under Ortiz who is now in private practice at the firm Nixon Peabody, said the Boston U.S. attorneys office has always prosecuted illegal re-entry cases, suggesting there may be a change in press policy rather than law enforcement policy.

A new administration with new priorities, he wrote in an email.

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