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Three more #Wisconsin county #sheriffs agree to work with #ICE

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/three-more-wisconsin-county-sheriffs-agree-to-work-with-ice/

Three more Wisconsin county sheriff's offices have signed agreements that allow deputies to cooperate with ICE enforcement efforts.

#Wisconsin Supreme Court accepts case challenging sheriff authority to detain #immigrants

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/wisconsin-supreme-court-accepts-case-challenging-sheriff-authority-to-detain-immigrants/

The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a lawsuit against the ability of county #sheriffs to detain migrants on behalf of #ICE.

"Lau, an award-winning former journalist with the Los Angeles Times sued the county after learning that the Los Angeles County #sheriffs Department spent three years criminally investigating her after she published an investigation uncovering a list of hundreds of sheriff’s deputies with histories of misconduct, including sexual assault, fabricating evidence, and using excessive force." https://www.rcfp.org/maya-lau-la-county-retaliatory-investigation/

"Lau, an award-winning former journalist with the Los Angeles Times sued the county after learning that the Los Angeles County #sheriffs Department spent three years criminally investigating her after she published an investigation uncovering a list of hundreds of sheriff’s deputies with histories of misconduct, including sexual assault, fabricating evidence, and using excessive force." https://www.rcfp.org/maya-lau-la-county-retaliatory-investigation/

Featured story, from Francesca D'Annunzio: Nearly 1.5M Texans now live in jurisdictions where sheriffs or #police chiefs have agreed to train some of their officers to act as #immigration agents in their communities. These agreements currently cover around 30 Texas law enforcement agencies. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-task-force-galveston-beaumont-tyler/

#ICE #HumanRights #border #sheriffs #politics #USpol #Trump #news #GulfCoast

#politics #immigration #brownshirts #sheriffs #Fascism #texas #alt

Texas Observer
“ …These task forces further empower local police to act as roving ICE agents in the streets—detaining, interrogating, and arresting based on immigration status….”

https://www.texasobserver.org/legislature-sheriffs-ice-cooperation-jails-streets/

#politics #texas #Fascism #sheriffs #brownshirts
Texas Observer

The Trump administration only recently revived the task force model, which had been terminated by the Obama administration in 2012 amid lawsuits and national controversy over racial profiling by sheriffs including the notorious Joe Arpaio in Arizona.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/24/texas-legislature-sheriffs-ice-agreements/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=native-share&utm_medium=social

#politics #alt #fasicsm #hls #sheriffs #noncompliance #resistance #resist #alt

Heather Cox Richardson 6/1/2025
Homeland Security Releases Names of “noncompliant” Sheriffs. National Sheriff’s Association Demands Apology

@MissPark

I went to high school in one of those counties.

#Sheriffs and #tariffs - both say #ffs

@msfreepress This is when local #cops, #sheriffs and #state popo are unleashed to run roughshod over people they don't like. If you ever mouthed off to a cop, you're SOL. If you ever filed a complaint, you're up the creek. If you ever contested a ticket. kiss your ass goodbye bc they now own your ass.

#deportation #sheriffs #ICE

"Another federal program, called 287(g), grants sheriff deputies permission to act as immigration agents themselves, questioning arrestees about their nationality and transferring them to ICE’s custody."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-sheriffs-might-power-trumps-deportation-machine

Far-Right #Sheriffs Want to Carry Out Donald Trump's #MassDeportations. That’s Not Possible

Across the US, sheriffs say they’re willing to do whatever they can to help Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, expel millions of #immigrants. Legally, that isn’t much.
#farright #deportation #donaldtrump #Trump

https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-sheriffs-donald-trump-mass-deportations-constitutional/

Meet the Far-Right #Constitutional #Sheriffs Ready to Assert Control if #Trump Loses

There are hundreds of #ConstitutionalSheriffs around the country who believe they are the ultimate legal power in their county. We break down how they have coalesced with the election denial movement.
#ElectionDenial #election #election2024 #djt #donaldtrump #maga

https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-denial/

'Take Back the States': The Far-Right #Sheriffs Ready to Disrupt the #Election

#ConstitutionalSheriffs are duly elected lawmen who believe they answer only to god. They've spent the last six months preparing to stop a "stolen" election—by any means necessary.
#election2024 #farright

https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-disrupt-election/

How #sheriffs define #lawandorder for their #counties depends on their #views, with most being #white #Republican #men.

With exceptions, #sheriffs often use their #power to keep an unequal balance in society along #racial and #class lines.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Ohio #Police #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://theconversation.com/how-sheriffs-define-law-and-order-for-their-counties-depends-a-lot-on-their-views-and-most-are-white-republican-men-239282

We can't have voter intimidation at polling places. Aren't these the "free speech" people? Why are they targeting people for their yard signs?

MAGA Sheriff’s Post About Kamala Harris Yard Signs Gets Department Booted From Election Duties
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-sheriffs-post-about-kamala-harris-yard-signs-gets-department-booted-from-election-duties
#voterintimidation #sheriffs #ConstitutionalSheriffs #maga #freespeech #fascism #electionsecurity

Woman claims her #Christian #megachurch banned her for criticizing the #pastor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnV0XIstzs4

James River Church in #Missouri allegedly kicked out Rahela Petian for daring to criticize their pastor. They even called on #sheriffs to arrest her (in front of her children!) at #church just before a service.
Now she wants the whole damn world to know about it.

Far-Right #Sheriffs Want a #CitizenArmy to Stop 'Illegal Immigrant' #Voters

Speakers at a conference for #ConstitutionalSheriffs claimed that #militias need to patrol polling stations to stop the "expected flood" of #immigrant voters.
#rights #farright #election

https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/

In 1845, millions of Irish fled the famine, the majority coming to the U.S.

Nearly half of all U.S. immigrants in the 1840s were Irish.

The racism against them was phenomenal.

There were the No Irish Need Apply signs outside businesses looking for workers.

Anti-Irish nativist gangs, like New York’s Bowery Boys, and Baltimore’s Plug Uglies carried out pogroms in Irish communities.

These gangs often affiliated with political parties like the No Nothings and the Republicans.

Irish gangs, affiliated with the Democratic Party, began to form for self-defense.

At least twenty people died in anti-Irish riots in Philadelphia in 1844.

@MikeDunnAuthor

#Pinkerton #Detective #Agency #Reading #Railroad #Black #Thursday #Molly #Maguires #union #activists #sheriffs #school #board

Irish Origins of the Myth of the Molly Maguires

According to legend, there was a widow living in Ireland in the 1840s named Molly Maguire,
who hated the landlords who were abusing the poor tenant farmers.

She supposedly carried a pistol strapped to each thigh.

She, or her followers, would beat or murder the tyrannical landlords, their agents, and bailiffs, whenever they tried to evict a tenant.

No one knows if she ever really existed, but other tenant farmer activists were said to cry out,
“Take that from a son of Molly Maguire!” when protesting against unscrupulous landlords.

@MikeDunnAuthor
#Pinkerton #Detective #Agency #Reading #Railroad #Black #Thursday #Molly #Maguires #union #activists #sheriffs #school #board

#Pinkerton #Detective #Agency #Reading #Railroad #Black #Thursday #Molly #Maguires #union #activists #sheriffs #school #board

However, there is no evidence that an organization called the Molly Maguires ever existed in the U.S.

James McParland, an #agent #provocateur who worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency,
and who provided the plans and weapons the men purportedly used in their crimes,
provided the only serious evidence against the men.

The entire legal process was a travesty:
a private corporation (the #Reading #Railroad ) set up the investigation through a private police force (the #Pinkerton #Detective #Agency ) and prosecuted them with their own company attorneys.

No jurors were Irish, though several were recent German immigrants who had trouble understanding the proceedings.

Nearly everything people “know” today about the Molly Maguires comes from Allan Pinkerton’s own work of #fiction,
"The Molly Maguires and the Detectives" (1877),
which he marketed as nonfiction.

His heavily biased book was the primary source for dozens of academic works, and for several pieces of fiction, including Arthur Conan Doyle’s final Sherlock Holmes novel, "Valley of Fear" (1915), and the 1970 Sean Connery film, "Molly Maguires."

https://c.im/@cdarwin/112267372704311250#.

#Black #Thursday #Molly #Maguires #union #activists #sheriffs #school #board

The Day of the Rope

The Molly Maguires became international news on June 21, 1877, when the authorities
💥 hanged ten Irish miners in a single day in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.💥

Known as #Black #Thursday, or Day of the Rope, it was the second largest mass execution in U.S. history.

(The largest was in 1862, when the U.S. government executed 38 Dakota warriors).

The authorities accused the Irishmen of being terrorists from a secret organization called the #Molly #Maguires.

They executed ten more over the next two years, and imprisoned another twenty suspected Molly Maguires.

Most of the convicted men were #union #activists.
Some even held public office, as #sheriffs and #school #board members.

@MikeDunnAuthor

https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/

In at least 14 states, "Bonds for the Win" activists attempted to serve #sham #paperwork to school districts, in several cases causing commotions that required police intervention.

And the number of people joining their cause is quickly growing as misinformation about the strategy’s effectiveness circulates.

On the chat app Telegram, where the activists organize, Bonds for the Win’s main channel grew from 700 subscribers to nearly 20,000 in the past month. Its members focus on #schools, but they have also served paperwork to a handful of #county #commissioners and discussed plans to go after other local officials, #judges and #sheriffs with similar claims.

Bonds for the Win is using these battles as a way of drawing in followers, demonstrating how quickly a faulty fringe tactic can generate momentum as frustrated parents join forces with conspiracy theorists.

#Miki #Klann, a QAnon adherent in Scottsdale, Arizona, who has said she believes AIDS is a hoax and that the Earth is flat, founded Bonds for the Win in December.

“We want the people to understand their 'sovereignty'.” Klann said in a recent video

The group’s strategy of intimidating government bodies with paperwork has been used in the past by #sovereign #citizens
-- loosely affiliated #rightwing #anarchists who believe federal and local governments are operating illegitimately.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/parents-mask-schools-surety-bonds-rcna16872

Sad news from Riverside County today. A deputy was shot and killed in the line of duty. #RiversideCounty #sheriffs #deputy #LawEnforcement #EOW https://www.pressenterprise.com/2022/12/29/riverside-county-sheriffs-deputy-shot-to-death