Biden's ICE nominee opposes the agency he will run?

 Washington Examiner:

Texas Sheriff Ed Gonzalez is in line to become the next leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a federal law enforcement agency that he resisted working with and criticized during the Trump administration.

President Joe Biden nominated Gonzalez, the Harris County sheriff, as director for ICE on Tuesday. Gonzalez worked for the Houston Police Department for nearly two decades before becoming sheriff, where he spoke out against ICE, a federal agency that is under the Department of Homeland Security and responsible for detaining and deporting immigrants residing in the United States without permission, as well as carrying out major investigations that relate to homeland security.

Gonzalez pulled Harris County out of an ICE program known as 287(g), which allows local law enforcement to be deputized by ICE to carry out federal immigration tasks in their own jails, a move that effectively duplicated ICE officers so that they did not have to be present in county jails. He said at the time that the move was due to a shortage of deputies.

The sheriff spoke out after former President Donald Trump opted to separate children from their parents as part of the zero-tolerance policy in 2018, and he raised his voice again the following year when Trump vowed to go after “millions of illegal aliens.”

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"Separating families who arrive at our border harms children and is an affront to American values," Gonzalez wrote in 2018. "Children should not be in immigration detention, period."

“I do not support #ICERaids that threaten to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, the vast majority of whom do not represent a threat to the U.S. The focus should always be on clear & immediate safety threats. Not others who are not threats,” Gonzalez wrote on Twitter in July 2019, adding that his sheriff’s department, the third-largest in the country, would not take part in any such federal operation.

Ali Noorani, president and CEO of the immigrant advocacy group the National Immigration Forum, applauded Gonzalez’s record.

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We will have to see if he follows the law on deportations.  I get the impression he is an opens border guy who will be in charge of deportations when he feels like it.

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