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James Pendergraph is a law enforcement official who does his job right!
Sheriff Pendergraph has sent some 960 illegal immigrants home from the Mecklenburg County jail since April after he partnered up with U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
He is the first sheriff east of California to sign up for ICE program 287(g), which trained 12 of his staffers to work full-time identifying and processing deportable immigrants.
In Charlotte, he is one of his county's most popular public figures, a winner of four consecutive elections, with a reputation around the courthouse as an effective administrator and something of an innovator, someone willing to see criminals for more than their crimes.
But with illegal immigration, his vision becomes more brown and white.
"We've got millions of illegal immigrants that have no business being here," he says.
And: "These people are coming to our country without documents, and they won't even assimilate."
And: "This is about homeland security. This is about the sovereignty of our country."
Right now, he sees one immigrant, the overdose, getting photographed and fingerprinted -- each finger, both thumbs -- by an ICE-trained deputy.
Little is known beyond his name, Kevin Su Lee.
Not Latino, but Korean. Entire Article
The way that Sheriff Pendergraph is handling this part of his job is the way that all of the sheriff's in the U.S. should be doing it!
He was the first east of California to enroll in this program? I wonder how many others are in it now?
UPDATE: I failed to mention that the article from Charlotte Observer is part of a series. Click Here for all of it.
