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Dane County, Sanctuary City
Most of Wisconsin’s sheriffs and police departments are working with the Trump Administration on the new rules for illegal immigrant criminals. But Congressman Bryan Steil said there’s an issue with one of the ones that’s not.
Steil was on News Talk 1130 WISN on Thursday, and talked about Dane County’s long resistance to working with anyone in Washington, D.C. on deporting or flagging people who are in the country illegally who commit crimes.
“It is true, Dane County operates as a sanctuary city,” Steil explained. “It is listed as such, and what we want the American people to help people in Wisconsin to know is that there are agencies in our state that are not fully cooperating with ICE. In particular [Dane County] weren't even cooperating with ICE under the Biden Administration administration's ICE Department listed Dane County Wisconsin as a limited or non-cooperative institution.”
Steil was ‘fact checked’ by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over that claim. But the ‘fact check’ focused on an official ‘sanctuary’ status.
Steil said that’s missing the point.
“[ICE] is saying to everyone in Wisconsin, that our state, is less safe because of the operations of places like Dane County,” Steil explained. “The state of Wisconsin had an opportunity to ban any operation in the state of Wisconsin from operating as a sanctuary city, as Dane County does. That bill failed to go through. People voted against that. The Democrats did not support that.”
Steil said most of Wisconsin’s law enforcement community does support a tougher immigration policy. He said Dane County is an “outlier.”
“The overwhelming majority of our districts are cooperating with ICE. When they receive an ICE request to hold an individual so that they can pick him up, they're engaging and working with it. Because the overwhelming majority of our sheriffs and law enforcement agencies are serving us because they want to make our communities safer.”
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