http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2015/11/04/texas-governor-strips-state-grant-funding-from-sanctuary-city-sheriffs/Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a new plan to strip state grant funding from county sheriff?s with a Sanctuary City policy of not honoring ICE detainers. The move follows Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez?s order that criminal illegal aliens in her jail will be evaluated on a case by case basis to determine if ICE detainers will be enforced.
?I am establishing new standards for Sheriff?s Departments that seek grants from the Governor?s Criminal Justice Division (CJD),? Governor Abbott wrote in a statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. ?Beginning now, all CJD grant awards will require that Sheriff?s Departments fully honor ICE?s detention requests for criminal immigrants. Any applicant that cannot certify that their office will honor all ICE detainers for criminal immigrants will be ineligible for CJD funding. Further, any applicant that certifies full compliance with ICE detainer requests?but subsequently fails to honor an ICE detainer?will be subject to claw-back provisions and must refund the full amount of their CJD grant award.?
The governor pointed out that ICE has been weakening its own standards about when they will issue detainers under the new Priority Enforcement Program enacted this year by the Department of Homeland Security. Breitbart Texas Managing Director Brandon Darby reviewed this program in a January, 2015 article. Darby called the program ?Catch and Release 2.0.?
