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ICE should instruct some Georgia officers to apply immigration law locally, says Kemp

ICE should instruct some Georgia officers to apply immigration law locally, says Kemp

It is assumed that the governor Brian Kemp has guided a top figure in the application of the law in Georgia, to make all the officers swearing under his command by the US Immigration and Customs Execution (ICE).

What do we know:

This request was made to Commissioner William Hitchens, III, as part of program 287 (G), a section of the Law on immigration and nationality that allows the application of the state and local law to associate with ICE to apply the Federal Imigration Laws, according to ICE.

In this case, ICE would train 1,100 sworn officers who could work for Department of Public Safety (DPS), The Georgia’s state patrol (GSP), Compliance with car carrier and Capitol Police DivisionsHow to “better help identify and withhold illegal foreigners who have a risk for public safety in the state.”

In other words, these officers would learn how to step and perform functions specified by immigration officer under the direction and ice supervision. On the day of inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order, Protecting the American people against the invasionTo revoke multiple commands from Biden’s era, clarify the law of immigration and how the new white house administration believes that it should be implemented in the USA read more Here.

Kemp made the announcement for Georgia Monday.

Previous Fox 5 Atlanta reports:

What do they say:

“If you are illegally in our country and commit crimes, you have no place in Georgia,” said governor Brian Kemp. “This is another sense of sense in addition to those I have taken since I first took over to allow the application of the working law to help identify and withhold the illegal foreigners who present a risk to public safety. I am also grateful that we now have an administration and partner in the White House, which is to grant the American, and the crack of the severity of illegal immigration.

“We take the safety of Georgians and travelers very seriously,” said Colonel Billy Hitchens. “This training and collaboration between the agents increases our ability to keep our communities safe. Identifying those who represent a threat and who are not in our legal country through education and intera It allows us to serve our citizens in our best capacity, which is eventually our goal.”

Who is Commissioner William Hitchens, III?

Dig deeper:

Colonel William W. Hitchens, III was appointed to function as a commissioner of the Public Security Department in 2023.

Its task is to supervise the operations of DPS, GSP, compliance with the car carrier and the Capitol Police divisions.

Before his appointment, Hitchens was the Deputy Commissioner. Prior to that, he had a long career in the state law enforcement, starting as a Cadet with Georgia state patrol in 1994. Just two years later, he was assigned to the Centenary Patrol Park during the 1996 Olympic Games. He received a deserving prize for his service during Bombardment.

Find out more About Commissioner William Hitchens, III.

Source: The information in this report was provided by the Brian P. Kemp Government Office and the previous FOX 5 Atlanta reports on Program 287 (G) in Georgia (Linked).

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