Sonoma County Sheriff Robert Giordano said in a statment today that the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency spread misinformation approximately the cause of his county's devastating fires and attacked his office in the midst of tragedy.
The sheriff was responding to a politicized statement made by ICE's acting director Thomas Homan of the Trump administration.
"Once again,a non-cooperative jurisdiction has left their community vulnerable to dangerous individuals and preventable crimes," Homan said approximately Sonoma County earlier today.
Homan implied that an undocumented immigrant named Jesus Gonzalez started the deadly North Bay fires, or went on to criticize the Sonoma Sheriff's office for not honoring a detainer that ICE sent the local agency to possess Gonzalez held so immigration agents could arrest him.…
Source: eastbayexpress.com