Nearly two years ago, the Dustin Inman Society announced the goal of getting 287 g into as many Georgia counties as possible. We are very proud of our success so far and that we have all the right enemies in the ACLU, GALEO, MALDEF, LA RAZA and many other well-funded un-American open borders groups.

Watch for a coming announcement of yet another Georgia sheriff who will apply for 287 g soon.

Athens Banner Herald

1/10/2009

Area sheriffs warming to ICE role

Teaming with Feds to deport illegal immigrants who break the law

Barrow County’s new sheriff wants his office added to the handful of police agencies in Georgia where officers can help deport illegal immigrants who commit crimes.

Sheriff Jud Smith, who took office Jan. 1, has taken the first steps to follow sheriffs in Hall and Oconee counties partnering with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to root out criminals who are in the country illegally.

“This is something I am very interested in and something I campaigned on,” Smith said. “It is something we will be looking into, and I want to implement it as quickly as possible.”

More and more Georgia law enforcement agencies began to ask for help from ICE after a state law took effect in July 2007 requiring jailers to make “a reasonable effort” to determine if prisoners were in the country illegally.

Hall County is one of only a few communities in the state with a full-fledged partnership with federal immigration officials. Since Hall jailers became certified as ICE agents in April, the number of illegal immigrants booked into the Hall County Detention Center has been cut in half, according to Hall County Sheriff Steve Cronic.

Once word spread through the community about the ICE program, illegal immigrants moved out of Hall County or grew more cautious about breaking the law, Cronic said.

Before joining the program, about 63 percent of the immigrants booked into the Hall County Detention Center were in the country illegally, he said.

Lawmakers added the ICE deportation program to the Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. It authorized the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to partner with state and local law enforcement agencies and allow officers to act as federal immigration agents.

Under the program, local cops get federally funded training under the supervision of ICE agents.

Sheriff’s departments in three other counties in Georgia now participate in the program – Hall, Cobb and Whitfield – and Gwinnett County, which shares a border with Barrow, seems well on its way to becoming the fourth…

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