Indiana attorney general files lawsuit against sheriff for defying feds on illegal immigration

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced connected Friday that his bureau has filed a suit against the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department implicit illegal immigration. 

"I filed a suit against St. Joseph County Sheriff [William] Redman and his section implicit their persistent signifier of refusing to cooperate with national migration authorities," Rokita told reporters astatine the property league successful South Bend, Indiana. 

He continued, "This includes refusing to notify ICE decently astir the merchandise of amerciable aliens and besides refusing to grant ICE detainers. This deliberate determination to not cooperate with national migration authorities is giving harmless harbor to transgression aliens that request to beryllium removed from our state and this county." 

ICE detainers refers to radical ICE asks section authorities to clasp until an cause tin instrumentality custody of them. 

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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced connected Friday that his bureau has filed a suit against the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department implicit amerciable immigration.  (AG Todd Rokita/X)

He said the sheriff’s actions would origin much migrants successful the state illegally to travel to St. Joseph County and perpetrate crimes. 

"I garbage arsenic your lawyer wide to conscionable basal by and ticker the lawlessness hap from instrumentality enforcement officials," helium added. 

Rokita said the Sheriff’s Department remains noncompliant with Indiana instrumentality aft aggregate attempts to pass with the sheriff. 

He noted that contempt the lawsuit, Indiana volition proceed to enactment its instrumentality enforcement, "but we volition besides clasp those who merit to beryllium held accountable, accountable." 

"My bureau volition not halt successful our enactment present connected this contented until the instrumentality is followed and we enactment our radical archetypal implicit amerciable aliens," helium said. 

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Rokita said his bureau would "happily rescind the lawsuit" if the sheriff’s section begins to cooperate. 

Rokita's bureau filed the suit against St. Joseph County Sheriff William Redman and his department.  (St. Joseph County Sheriff's Department)

He added that his bureau is besides investigating imaginable labour tracking networks successful the authorities amid reports from residents of an influx of migrants into communities.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Redman and the St. Joseph Sheriff’s Department for comment. 

The suit comes arsenic President Trump unveils his wide deportation plan, with the White House saying that hundreds of migrants successful the state illegally person been removed since helium was sworn-in connected Monday. 

People are seen boarding a U.S. subject aircraft. The White House announced Friday that "deportation flights person begun" successful the U.S. (White House)

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"TODAY: The Trump Administration arrested 538 amerciable migrant criminals including a suspected terrorist, 4 members of the Tren de Aragua gang, and respective illegals convicted of enactment crimes against minors," White House property caput Karoline Leavitt wrote connected X connected Thursday. "The Trump Administration besides deported hundreds of amerciable migrant criminals via subject aircraft. The largest monolithic deportation cognition successful past is good underway."