Two months after an Iowa sheriff publicly postured that he would block Immigration and Customs Enforcement efforts in his county, he and the state are in a legal duel that has all of the county’s state funding at stake.
Iowa Republican Attorney General Brenna Bird brought the hammer down on Winneshiek County last month after giving Sheriff Dan Marx weeks to retract comments made in a Feb. 4 Facebook post, according to Fox News.
In the since-deleted post, Marx said he would “make every effort to block, interfere and interrupt” ICE operations based on a detainer, which he called “simply an unconstitutional *request* from ICE.” Detainers are documents ICE files with police agencies to prevent illegal immigrants from being released anywhere except to ICE’s custody.