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Youngkin signs Executive Order 'to protect Virginians from dangerous illegal immigrants.

Richmond- Governor Glenn Youngkin issued the order of the executive 47 on Thursday to lead the state law enforcement and correction officers in order to help enforce the immigration of the federal immigration and apply for the places that work fully together with immigration and customs authorities in the United States and other assets in the United States.

In § 287 (g) Agreements, state and local law enforcement officers can deactivate the efforts to implement the immigration authorities of the federal immigration, according to the release.

“As a governor, the protection of our citizens is my most important responsibility, and today we take measures that Virginia make safer by removing dangerous illegal immigrants from our Commonwealth,” said Governor Youngkin. “This arrangement enables Virginia State Police and the Department of Corrections to work together with the administration of President Trump in enforcing the immigration of the national immigration. Dangerous criminal illegal immigrants should not be left back to our communities to do, rape and murder them. They should be sent back where they came from. ”

Opponents of the order argue that it promotes racist profil creation and undermines the trust of the community in law enforcement.

“I am a legal immigrant and now a natural citizen,” said the governor of Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears. “The governor, Attorney General and I have made Virginia safer. We have supported more financing for law enforcement agencies and tackled violent crimes in our cities. Now we can work with President Trump, and we can accept the scourge of dangerous and violent illegal immigrants. We have too many tragic stories according to which dangerous criminal in this country.

“As I said, the law enforcement experts in Virginia have both authority and a moral duty to work as far as possible with any legitimate federal government,” said Attorney General Jason Miyares. “It has our top priority to protect the Virgins from violent criminals. Today's executive order makes a crystal clear. If you are illegally present in this country and commit violent crimes, you will be arrested and deported in accordance with the law. ”

The Executive Order 47 instructs the police from Virginia and the Department of Corrections to sign § 287 (g) agreements with ICE and to apply for the secretary for public security and home protection for certification of local and regional prison authorities, in which the complete cooperation with ICE and section 287 (g) VSP Task Force is confirmed.

The law on the illegal reform and the law on immigrant responsibility of 1996 of 1996 was added to the Immigration and Citizenship Act (INA), which authorizes ICE to conclude agreements with state and local law enforcement authorities on the progress of the federal immigration laws, according to the release. In addition, § 287 (g) Agreements give state -trained and certified state and local law enforcement officers to carry out the authorization to carry out specified immigration officer under the direction and supervision of ICE.

According to this arrangement, Virginia State Police will enter a section 287 (g) Task Force Model Memorandum of Understanding with ICE, according to the press release. This agreement will create a task force from the state police of deputy soldiers nationwide to support the identification and arrest of crime illegal immigrants who pose a risk of public security in the Virginia Commonwealth.

The order also directs the Corrections Department of Corrections in Virginia to complete a section 287 (G) Prison Model Memorandum of Understanding with ice cream. This agreement enables the use of several prison and processing facilities throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia and the training of correction officials as described immigration officers.

The arrangement also obliges that the secretary for public security and homeland protection every director, sheriff or another civil servant who is responsible for a local or regional prison in the Commonwealth of Virginia certifies their complete cooperation with ICE in all enforcement and distance surgery and explains that they will work together with section 287 (g) VSK -ACC force.