Across the US, sheriffs say they’re willing to do whatever they can to help Donald Trump’s "border czar,” Tom Homan, expel millions of immigrants.
But a WIRED investigation—including interviews with sheriffs and experts, and a review of reports detailing the fiscal cost of carrying out the administration’s claims of deporting up to a million undocumented migrants in a year—shows that such a scenario is virtually impossible.“It's synthetic hyperventilation,” Jonathan Thompson, executive director of the National Sheriffs’ Association, tells WIRED.“It's all designed to scare people, and it won't happen like that, period.
Hathaway says immigrants from Mexico have an overwhelming positive impact on his county and the US in general, and that he believes Trump’s mass deportation plan not only is unworkable, but also would erode the trust he has built up within his community.“I'm not going to cooperate, because 95 percent of the residents of the town where I live, where my county is, are Hispanic,” Hathaway says.“I'm not going to go checking the documents of practically every single person in my county to determine their immigration status, because that would create distrust between law enforcement and all the people in my community.
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