\u201cCop Under Fire: Moving Beyond Hashtags of Race, Crime and Politics for a Better America.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nAfter years of lip service from both parties, Clarke says he is happy to see decisive action.<\/p>\n
\u201cFinally, we have somebody who\u2019s going to get his arms around this thing, along with the Congress. Congress has the constitutional authority to set immigration standards. They\u2019re going to have to take the test as well. And you know what? Congress is afraid to deal with this issue because it\u2019s explosive,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
Despite the warning from Sessions about lost federal funds, mayors and police chiefs around the country say they won\u2019t budge. Clarke sees that as a dereliction of duty.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese mayors out there are abdicating their responsibility to keep their citizens safe. This is nothing more than aiding and abetting criminal activity when you start to harbor criminal illegal aliens,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
Opponents of the Trump policy, such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, often stake their positions on America\u2019s history of welcoming immigrants seeking a better life, without distinguishing between legal and illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
Clarke says that distinction matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got a guy in Donald Trump, the president of the United States, who\u2019s actually going to enforce the law. That is a shock to some people. But we\u2019re a nation of laws. People want to say we\u2019re a nation of immigrants. No, we\u2019re not. We are a nation of laws. We are a nation of lawful immigration,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
The sheriff also emphasizes that all the mayors and law enforcement officials are being asked to do is deal with criminals who are in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not talking about immigration in general and not even illegal immigration. I\u2019m not giving it a pass, but I\u2019m focusing on criminal illegal aliens. I think it\u2019s a good place to start because these individuals have no business in the country. Many of them have been deported over and over and over again only to return, which shows the border is porous,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is nowhere near the southern border, but Clarke says the effects of illegal immigration are having a very real impact on his community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a case several weeks ago of a criminal illegal alien (with a) criminal history. He was not deported because of the catch and release policies that have gone on,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a domestic violence situation, he pointed a firearm at his girlfriend, threatened his girlfriend, pointed a firearm at his two young kids and threatened them as well,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
He says that\u2019s just one of many crimes and tragedies linked to illegal immigration in Milwaukee County.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re talking about murders. We\u2019ve had criminal illegal aliens involved in drunk driving incidents in Milwaukee County who would have killed other motorists. We\u2019ve had robberies. We\u2019ve had sexual assaults. We\u2019ve had incidents of child abuse,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
Unlike officials in sanctuary cities, Clarke says he fully cooperates with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in rooting out criminals in the country illegally.<\/p>\n
\u201cI work with ICE and ICE officials have access to all of my booking data. They look at it every day and they decide who they\u2019re going to give a further look at. I don\u2019t tell them, \u2018Look at this guy and this guy.\u2019 They\u2019ll decide and then they\u2019ll call and tell us, \u2018Hold onto this guy or this guy. We want to do some further investigation to see if this person is in the country lawfully,’\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
One of Clarke\u2019s greatest frustrations is the lack of hard data on criminal illegals. He says it\u2019s something liberals deliberately want to keep fuzzy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know the extent of the problem because data isn\u2019t being collected on crimes involving a criminal illegal alien. It\u2019s funny how, in this country, the left demands that we collect data on all traffic stops involving black motorists. We actually collect that data. There\u2019s a box you have to check and a form you have to fill out,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of a sudden now when we want to collect data, so we have some accuracy as to what\u2019s going on with this problem, they don\u2019t want anything to do about it,\u201d said Clarke, who praises Trump for ordering the collection of data on crimes committed by illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n
Clarke is taking steps to prepare his department to offer even more cooperation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to help ICE. I\u2019ve applied for the 287 (g) program, which, after training, will deputize my law enforcement officers with immigration enforcement,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not going to be doing home raids and we\u2019re not going to be doing workplace raids and school raids like the left likes to portray as the sky is falling and the bogeyman propaganda. I\u2019m going to focus on going after criminal illegal aliens, who have been arrested for some very serious crimes, deported previously but got back in,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce they get that border sealed, the next time we get them out , we\u2019ll be able to keep them out,\u201d said Clarke.<\/p>\n
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