Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a new effort in May 2019 to expand the reach of its deportation machine.
Far-Right Sheriffs
Nearly a quarter of the leadership of the National Sheriffs’ Association have ties to the Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) as early as 2019 and that number has only grown since. CSPOA is right-wing network of sheriffs founded by Richard Mack in 2011, and its ideology is rooted in a reading of the U.S. Constitution which prohibits almost the entire structure of the current U.S. federal government, especially its regulatory bodies. CSPOA sheriffs tend to endorse the transfer of federally-owned lands to county level government, harsher A term used to describe organizations, movements, ideas, and policies that oppose immigrants and immigration. Learn more enforcement, collaboration with militia, and nullification, the notion that federal laws can be ignored by local governments at either the county or state level.
