This week began with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruling that officers who provide security in state courthouses do not have the authority to arrest someone suspected of being in the United States illegally if that person is not facing criminal charges.

The ruling also suggests that no Massachusetts police officer has the legal standing to comply with such federal requests because the ruling applied to all state law-enforcement officials.

The Supreme Judicial Court pointed out that there is no state law that gives

“authority for Massachusetts court officers to arrest and hold an individual solely on the basis of a federal civil immigration detainer beyond the time that individual would otherwise be entitled to a release from state custody.

Conspicuously absent from our common law is any authority (in the absence of a statute) for police officers to arrest generally for civil matters, let alone authority to arrest specifically for federal civil immigration matters.”

The president of the Massachusetts Major City Chiefs of Police Association, Brian Kyes, said even those charged with a crime will have to be released after paying bail. Before this ruling, they would often be detained at ICE’s request.

A very unhappy Bristol County Sheriff, Thomas Hodgson , who volunteered county jail inmates to help build Trump’s Wall on the Southern border and has suggested that any elected official who supports Sanctuary Cities/Safe Communities be arrested, wants state lawmakers to immediately file and pass legislation that will strengthen the partnership between local, state and federal law enforcement that he claims will keep citizens and legal residents safe.

 “We’re working on a draft of the bill right now and it will be filed on Tuesday. We’re going to protect the people. It will make the Commonwealth safer if we can get this bill passed by the legislature, which authorizes court officers and law enforcement officers to honor ICE detainers.”

The thing is, he has never produced anything beyond merely saying that people illegally in the country have increased crime to back his claim, and he has repeatedly claimed the presence of undocumented immigrants and Sanctuary Cities have increased crime rates in spite of Newton Massachusetts, a “Safe Community”, another name for Sanctuary City, being one of the top 100 safest cities in the United states.

Using an Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, dataset obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, it has been ascertained that:

• There are, on average, 35.5 fewer crimes committed per 10,000 people in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.
• Median household annual income is, on average, $4,353 higher in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.
• The poverty rate is 2.3 percent lower, on average, in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.
• Unemployment is, on average, 1.1 percent lower in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.
• While the results hold true across sanctuary jurisdictions, the sanctuary counties with the smallest populations see the most pronounced effects.

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So, it turns out that crime is lower and economies are stronger in sanctuary counties compared to non-sanctuary counties.

But what are facts and reality when a tough talking sheriff wants to promote his agenda and himself?

When it came to this week’s ruling, the sheriff repeated his non-fact based mantra about safety saying,

“The decision makes Massachusetts residents and visitors more vulnerable to become victims of crime.”

In reality what would make residents and visitors more vulnerable to becoming victims of crime is a sheriff who refuses to support the idea of a Sanctuary County by refusing to accept facts, lies to them while he promotes himself over doing his one simple job, running the county jail, and acting like Barney Fife when Andy gives him a new bullet.

The man costs the county millions of dollars through the law suits he loses based on his mistreatment of inmates and guards, money wasted on pet projects like boats and their upgrades that he cannot use to patrol the harbor in New Bedford and the waters on the South Coast, and having the highest rate of inmate suicides in the state.

That’s the crime the county needs to be protected from.