PJM: Eighteen of Oregon’s 36 elected sheriffs are urging the state’s voters to support Measure 105, which is a November ballot proposal to do away with the 1987 law that set up the nation’s first sanctuary state stopping state and local police from helping ICE round up illegal immigrants.
The statement, initiated by Clatsop County, Ore., Sheriff Thomas J. Bergin, and co-signed by 17 other sheriffs, pointed to the July Iowa murder of Mollie Tibbetts as an example of the damage that can be done by “illegal-immigrant criminals.”
The letter also argues that the very concept of Oregon’s sanctuary state law is wrong.
“The statute undermines respect for law in significant ways,” reads the letter. “It tells illegal immigrants that Oregon considers immigration-law violations so inconsequential as to be unworthy of police and sheriffs’ attention.”
Jeff Auxier, the district attorney for Columbia County, Ore., said while it is “reasonable” for county sheriffs and local police to work with ICE when a criminal needs to be deported, he doesn’t see any need for county sheriffs or city cops to be checking whether an “otherwise law-abiding resident has the correct immigration papers.”
Won’t happen. The leftists have a deathgrip on the government out there and will fight any reasonable change like rabid weasels.
18/36 is exactly 50% of Oregon’s elected sheriffs. Why is it not 100%, one wonders?
Vietvet, I’d be willing to wager that it is the sheriffs from the eastern half of the state…
Odin, Clatsop county is at the mouth of the Columbia River on the coast, I looked the list over and yes most are from east of the Cascades the other 3 are southern Oregon next to California.
I was hoping my Sheriff signed, he didn’t.
Maybe he supports it but just didn’t want his name on the document.?
Washington is the Evergreen State. Oregon is the Other-Green State.