(Red Oak) Last week, Montgomery County Board of Supervisors Chairman Mike Olson addressed a television news report showing the county on a list of sanctuary counties for illegal (alien) immigrants. The list included Cass, Fremont, Montgomery, and Pottawattamie counties.
Olson had been working with the Cass County Board of Supervisors chairman Steve Baier to investigate the matter. Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies Center for Immigration Studies, tells KSOM/KS95 News that she received emails from Officials in Cass County, including Cass County Chief Deputy Sheriff John Westering.
Vaughn says the way the federal law works to make this system constitutional (created by Congress) is that when ICE issues a detainer, it comes with an arrest warrant stating probable cause for the individual’s removal from the country. It asks the local jurisdiction to hold the illegal aliens for no more than 48 hours.
Vaughn says the best procedure when booked into a jail is to ask the detainees what country they were born in and what country they are citizens of.
Vaughn says she spoke with Montgomery County Sheriff Jon Spunaugle on Friday and received his story on the county’s policies and practices on cooperation with ICE. Based on what he told Ms. Vaugh, she intends to remove Montgomery County from the list. She is unsure when that will occur, but Vaughn believes she has all of the information needed to remove Montgomery from the list of maps of counties.
