Warren signed a new 287(g) agreement in October with the unanimous consent of the Board of Commissioners. That same week, the ACLU issued a report arguing that "unchecked police power under 287(g)" is tearing apart families in Cobb.
"The ACLU report continuously confuses the roles of several law enforcement agencies in Cobb County. For example, the ACLU report suggests numerous times that the Cobb County Police Department abuses authority granted under the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)," Warren said in the response.
"This assertion by the ACLU is a blatant misstatement of the facts because, as the ACLU well knows, the MOA does not grant any authority to the Cobb County Police Department and has no legal impact whatsoever on that agency's operations. The ACLU either does not understand the relationship between the various law enforcement agencies or is deliberately attempting to mislead readers about how the 287(g) program works in Cobb County."
The ACLU report states: "Cobb County residents who appear to be foreign-born have been subjected to rampant racial profiling and are routinely picked up by the police for minor or nonexistent violations."
Officers do not target a specific group of people, Warren said.
"If racial profiling played a role in the arrest of an individual - and there is no substantial evidence that such has occurred - it would have happened during the arrest procedure by an agency that has no authority under 287(g)," he said. "Moreover, the ICE-certified Sheriff's deputy performing 287(g) functions does not make arrests and therefore cannot be accused of racial profiling."
In response to the ACLU's accusation that individuals are arrested on minor traffic violations, Warren said, "The report does not mention the number of non-Latino people who were stopped and arrested or released for similar violations. These unsubstantiated accusations hardly rise to the level of credible proof that Cobb residents who appear to be foreign born have been subjected to rampant racial profiling and are routinely picked up for non-existent violations."
The Cobb County Sheriff's Office was the first agency in Georgia to participate in 287(g). Since July 2007, Warren's office has identified more than 6,600 inmates who were in the United States illegally.
The Sheriff blasted the report, calling it baseless.
"Other than to simply state that the 287(g) program encourages bad acts by law enforcement, the ACLU has offered no data or other information that there is any kind of relationship between the existence of the 287(g) MOA and the acts of which it complains," he said. "Indeed, the ACLU report offers nothing, other than unsubstantiated anecdotal references, concerning racial profiling. Overall, the contents of the ACLU report totally lack any justification to refrain from implementing the provisions of the Section 287(g) program in Cobb County."
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They come here, live off the government, pop out babies that automatically become citizens and send their money home, so what good are they to us other than cheap illegal labor amd a burden on our tax base. DEPORT!!!!!!
We admire Sheriff Warren and the difficult job performed by his deputies, one of whom was recently killed by a drunk illegal who ran away and left him to die alone in a ditch.
So many elected officials don't.
The drug cartel set up shop quite easily in the house next to me in Cobb,.... no one there in my own country to protect me. I had to sell my house & move.
The illegals have taken over the constuction industry (my career choice) making it next to impossible to earn a living wage any longer.
I've lost my American dream!! How many others? That story doesn't get reported by our PC media!
If you're here w/out proper documentation, you're illegal. If you're here from Germany, the U.K., Iran ,Mexico, etc., etc., illegally,... there should be no-one protecting your law breaking ways. South Cobb Drive didn't get in the condition it's in from 'legal' immigrants moving into the area. There are parts of Gwinnet County , Rockdale County, Hall County, etc., etc., that are unrecognizable as American communities.
Other countries protect their borders & don't make apologies about it. It's a survival technique. Americans don't have the will to survive.