With President-elect Donald Trump set to begin his 2nd term in January, all eyes are on his deportation agenda which will be the keystone of his 2nd term.
While Democrats have promised to fight back against Trump's mass deportation plan, Trump has scored the support of local sheriffs around the nation who are ready and willing to support Trump's plans.
The Wall Street Journal spoke to multiple local sheriffs including Chuck Jenkins, a sheriff in Frederick County, Maryland, and Richard Jones, a sheriff in Butler County, Ohio.
They confirmed their agencies are ready to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its agents in carrying out Trump's plans.
For the past four years, President Joe Biden's administration has let in millions of illegal immigrants while hamstringing ICE and other agencies that would normally conduct deportations. Now all of that will be completely reversed with Trump in charge.
Trump's promises to deport the millions of illegal immigrants let in by the Biden administration will require the support of local and state agencies to succeed.
The Trump administration has confirmed that they plan to begin the deportations the day that Trump is sworn into office.
Sheriff Jenkins made it clear that he's locked and loaded for action saying he and his department is "willing to support” Trump “100 percent,” and that he wants “to do more, within the law.”
Sheriff Jenkins and hundreds of other Sheriffs around the nation will be the key to Trump's plan as he will reportedly be utilizing ICE’s 287(g) program.
That program will give "sheriffs and other agencies certain ICE powers,” allowing them to supplement ICE in the deportation plan which would otherwise require a massive expansion of the agency which would likely require Congressional approval.
Trump doesn't want to wait for Congress as it will inevitably take months for that kind of action to make it through both chambers of Congress. So instead, the nation's Sheriffs will be on the frontline of Trump's biggest battle yet.
While Sheriffs around the nation are ready and willing to help Trump, leftist "sanctuary" cities will be a massive roadblock that will need to be cleared.
Multiple leftist mayors like Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston have already promised to oppose the Trump administration. These promises to harbor illegal immigrants have earned them the attention of incoming Trump border czar Tom Homan.
Homan has promised to bring the full force of the law against those who stand in the Trump administration's way in much the same vein that the previous administration did against Republican officials.