The Cumberland County Board of Commissioners voted on Tuesday to terminate its federal agreement allowing ICE to house immigration detainees in the Cumberland County Jail in a 3-1 vote, reversing a prior November decision.
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“We have not stopped ICE, and we have not stopped the Border Patrol. The only people who can stop ICE and the border patrol are the people who sit in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and they can only do that by reforming the budget and reforming the archaic immigration laws which we have,” said Commissioner James Cloutier.
Cloutier also baselessly claimed that U.S. immigration law is mostly based on race while advocating for terminating the county’s agreement with ICE.
Commissioner Stephen Gordon opposed the measure, claiming that it would only prevent the county from being reimbursed for housing detainees, rather than actually prevent ICE from housing them in the jail.
“To not take into account the unintended consequences of imposing these costs in the form of greater property taxes on the economically challenged citizenry is unjust, and in my mind totally preventable,” said Gordon.
Despite his objection, Gordon also expressed a belief that ICE acts in a “morally unjust” manner.
Ultimately, the commissioners voted 3-1 in favor of ending the county’s ICE agreement, with Commissioner Tom Tyler absent.
Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce told CBS13 that he is disappointed in the decision because the county’s jail funding has been built around federal revenue, which will now be jeopardized.
He explained that, during Operation Catch of The Day, the January ICE surge in Maine, the federal government was paying $150 per day per detainee.
The vote marks a significant departure from the results of a November vote on the same issue, when commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of maintaining their contract with immigration authorities.
Cloutier is a f#cking Marxo-fascist democrat scumbag terrorist.
I’ve known Cloutier for decades. He is a Marxist Kool-Aid drinker and has no business being on the Commission.
When you v one Marxist(Democrat) you get what the Communists have said for decades.
Destruction from within. No law, no order. ICE is keeping us safe.
These morons should be arrested for treason
Why pick a fight, with your own government. who is running this circus
Well, let’s increase taxes to pay for the jail.
When the rule of law is no longer supported, then you have a nation in decline. Is that what the far left wants? Yes. Time for Maine voters to wake up before it is too late.
“because the county’s jail funding has been built around federal revenue, which will now be jeopardized.”
Might want to think long and hard about what this man is saying.
A state and it’s officials actively supporting open borders, obstructing justice, invested illegals dispersed throughout our state, providing free housing, free food, free medical and free schooling causing pending cuty bankruptcies.
What could go wrong? Brilliant!!
Aiding and abetting the invasion of our homeland is TREASON !
Mr. Cloutier is what’s wrong with the Democratic party at large. In the name of “immigration reform” they want Joe Biden’s OPEN borders policy to become law. If this came to pass the Democrat’s dream of defunding ICE will come true as well, as there would be no need for ICE. Needless to say, the influx of millions of indigent, poorly educated, non-english speaking foreigners would have a disastrous impact on our country.
Portland, Maine on its way to be just like these other dysfunctional, Democratic-run cities….
Seattle, Washington
Asheville, North Carolina
Portland, Oregon
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
San Francisco, California
Los Angeles, California
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Denver, Colorado
Boston, Massachusetts
And
Chicago, Illinois…we’re they set girls on fire in the subway
WAKE UP MAINERS!!!!!!
So now Maine jail keepers don’t won’t to jail dangerous criminals. They need to get a job at Walmart.