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> It’s the duty of all law enforcement agencies to help remove those who are here illegally. Law enforcement only has a duty to enforce the laws that are withi
by jandrewrogers 1y ago
> It’s the duty of all law enforcement agencies to help remove those who are here illegally.
Law enforcement only has a duty to enforce the laws that are within their jurisdiction and scope to enforce.
A red-coded equivalent is the long-running antagonism between States in the Mountain West and the Federal government regarding land use e.g. the Sagebrush Rebellion[0]. In these cases, local law enforcement generally refuses to enforce the Federal law and in some cases actively interferes with enforcement by Federal officers by leveraging the unique role that sheriffs occupy in the US legal system.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagebrush_Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagebrush_Rebellion