Over at Women of Color Blog, BFP outlines a scheme advanced by the San Diego County Sheriff's Department to require an I.D. check for all evacuees as they return to their homes in the aftermath of the fires. Not surprisingly, this inspection is linked to the border patrol/ICE policy and is resulting in many victims of the disaster being slated for deportation:
-Sheriff Kolender, who typically says the Sheriff’s Department does not have the resources to do the federal government’s job of immigration enforcement, has refused to drop his policy of nonetheless helping Border Patrol when identifying potentially undocumented persons despite the tremendous demands on the Sheriff’s Department and the highly unusual practice of setting up military-style checkpoints outside people’s neighborhoods.
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