The anticipated ICE raids include neither Fall River nor New Bedford, the two major urban areas on the South Coast of Massachusetts. These two cities have a history greatly dependent on immigrants past and present.
The sheriff of Bristol County Massachusetts, Thomas Hodgson, who has a really negative attitude toward immigrants and connections with far right and white supremacist groups, and wants desperately to be a rough, tough, western style, swaggering sheriff and not the custodial style sheriff as is his actual position by state law, must be experiencing extreme frustration that he will not be part of the operation.
Unless he finds a way to suit up and join a raid in another jurisdiction, the most he can do is run the gamut of local news outlets and bloviate on his opinion of immigrants.
It must be killing him.
In an appearance on a news outlet in another state with its own county sheriffs, Hodgson spoke about the impending ICE raids.
“These are people that are being targeted because not only did they knowingly violate the law and enter this country illegally, then after doing that, were given due process before the courts, like anyone else in America. And, now they don’t like the decision of the judge that told them ‘you must leave the United States and be removed.’ Now, they’re saying, ‘I’m going to thumb my nose at that too.’
This from a man who has been sued multiple times for violating the laws that spell out his job, who attempts continually to extend his lawful job beyond its scope, does not submit documents in the time limits required by law, and had to be forced to turn over to the state money he gets through his contract with ICE for detaining potential deportees in his jails.
His attitude is basically that he doesn’t like the laws regarding his position and duties and says by word and deed,
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“I’m going to thumb my nose at that too.”
He self-righteously criticizes elected officials and local law enforcement who object to a federal agency creating an unnecessary adversarial and potentially dangerous relationship within local communities between police and people by having raids and representing ICE as the local police.
“Now we have elected officials who are saying they’re going to protect them, undermine a judges ruling and law enforcement and expose us to even greater dangers when we try and round these people up.”
He ignores the danger to the community if people documented and undocumented avoid any contact with local law enforcement when it comes to reporting crime or coming forward as witnesses.
Hodgson says he welcomes ICE to bring detainees to his detention facility most likely because he will receive money that he will not pass on to the state in a lawful and timely manner, money he can add to slush funds, he has them, to collect interest until the state has to force him to follow the law and pass the principle money on to the state.
So it is ironic that a man who skirts the law in his position as sheriff says of others,
“We’re a country of laws, a county of laws, and we expect people to abide by the laws, and when you don’t, we expect people to understand that there’s going to be consequences for it.”
As he should.