I have written before about the Bristol County Massachusetts sheriff, Thomas Hodgson, and the high rates of suicide and recidivism in his jails, his questionable spending of taxpayer dollars, his involvement with white supremacists groups, and his ridiculously negative opinion of immigrants, both legal and undocumented, that he supports with outright lies, half truths, and appeals to bigotry.
He not only attempts to scare people in the county by claiming that sanctuary cities are a threat to safety in spite of the statistics and the city in the state that is consistently rated the safest one is a sanctuary city, but he wants the legislature to pass a bill that would call for the arrest of any elected official or police chief who doesn’t do the job of ICE or promotes sanctuary cities and safe communities.
He claims all that he does is to keep the people of the county safe, even as the conditions in his jails and the treatment of the inmates sours them against society, and, rather than re-enter the community rehabilitated, re-enter embittered.
The sheriff is using county time and money to operate as an arm of ICE and has entered a contractual relationship with ICE.
This agreement requires an annual steering committee meeting to “increase community awareness and receive feedback on the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement 287(g) program.”
The meeting held last year was, as stated, open to the public. Many in attendance were not supportive of the sheriff or his participation with ICE judging from comments and questions. It was obviously uncomfortable for the sheriff as people did not just accept what he said, but questioned his invented claims and requested he back up his claim.
For some strange reason, when the meeting ended and those in attendance stepped outside, they had to walk by the K-9 van that was within feet of the door with two dogs barking and snarling at them as they did so.
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This year he has come up with a way to have a public meeting while ensuring it will either be poorly attended, or will be heavily populated by a friendly audience.
Intimidation.
This year, although the meeting is open t the public, anyone who wants to attend must RSVP days in advance, which means the sheriff will have people’s names and the time to check them out.
This can have a chilling effect on the immigrant community when it comes to attending, as relying on people’s fears that they will be detained themselves, or by knowing their names might expose family members to arrest by ICE will keep them away.
Even the most law abiding citizens could be reluctant to attend because of the unwillingness to hand the sheriff their names and addresses.
The sheriff has found a way to guarantee a friendly audience so through his spokesperson and the friendly local media he will be presented as a success whose work is masterful as there was nothing negative said by the community members in attendance who had nothing but supportive and positive things to say about his involvement with ICE.
This is how he operates.