Dem governor in deep-red state calls for ICE pullout, triggering clash over enforcement authority
This affects the entire country.
EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman fired back at Gov. Andy Beshear's comments on "The View" about pulling ICE out of "every city," setting up what could become a high-stakes intergovernmental battle over cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
"Every ICE agent should be withdrawn from every city and every community that they're in. This organization has to be reformed from the top-down. Secretary Noem needs to be fired, and every agent needs to retrained," Beshear told the ABC talk show, before adding the "body-count of American citizens" should lead to a "pause [to] pull everybody back."
Coleman, who spoke to Fox News Digital from the sheriff’s office in Daviess County — home of NASCAR legend Darrell Waltrip and one of several Kentucky jurisdictions that work with ICE — said his take is "not a political one" and that ICE also has the backing of those lawmen he was meeting with after the interview.
"My view as the chief law enforcement officer of this commonwealth, someone that's carried a badge and a gun, someone that has been a federal prosecutor, [is] that statement that the governor made was absurd," Coleman said.
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Coleman said the dispute centers on Beshear’s "commentary" versus the reality of which agencies he controls.
The Kentucky State Police fall under Beshear’s authority, but they currently work with ICE. Meanwhile, Coleman’s office works with the state’s 120 county sheriffs’ offices, many of which cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security.
"I don't want to set up a straw-dog argument because the reality is the collaboration is never going to stop here because those of us who have taken an oath to protect families are going to work with our federal partners," he said, pointing to recent successes across the Tug Fork River where such collaboration led to the arrests of 650 illegal immigrants in West Virginia.
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As for the legal ramifications of a potential clash between a DHS-aligned attorney general and a governor with opposing objectives, one legal expert said the situation presents an interesting case.
Former Florida federal prosecutor Zack Smith said that while every state’s attorney generalship is slightly different, a governor is an elected constitutional officer, just as sheriffs are, and that neither can tell the other what to do "in most instances."
"The attorney general can issue opinions of law. He can issue certain …
This affects the entire country.
EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman fired back at Gov. Andy Beshear's comments on "The View" about pulling ICE out of "every city," setting up what could become a high-stakes intergovernmental battle over cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
"Every ICE agent should be withdrawn from every city and every community that they're in. This organization has to be reformed from the top-down. Secretary Noem needs to be fired, and every agent needs to retrained," Beshear told the ABC talk show, before adding the "body-count of American citizens" should lead to a "pause [to] pull everybody back."
Coleman, who spoke to Fox News Digital from the sheriff’s office in Daviess County — home of NASCAR legend Darrell Waltrip and one of several Kentucky jurisdictions that work with ICE — said his take is "not a political one" and that ICE also has the backing of those lawmen he was meeting with after the interview.
"My view as the chief law enforcement officer of this commonwealth, someone that's carried a badge and a gun, someone that has been a federal prosecutor, [is] that statement that the governor made was absurd," Coleman said.
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Coleman said the dispute centers on Beshear’s "commentary" versus the reality of which agencies he controls.
The Kentucky State Police fall under Beshear’s authority, but they currently work with ICE. Meanwhile, Coleman’s office works with the state’s 120 county sheriffs’ offices, many of which cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security.
"I don't want to set up a straw-dog argument because the reality is the collaboration is never going to stop here because those of us who have taken an oath to protect families are going to work with our federal partners," he said, pointing to recent successes across the Tug Fork River where such collaboration led to the arrests of 650 illegal immigrants in West Virginia.
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As for the legal ramifications of a potential clash between a DHS-aligned attorney general and a governor with opposing objectives, one legal expert said the situation presents an interesting case.
Former Florida federal prosecutor Zack Smith said that while every state’s attorney generalship is slightly different, a governor is an elected constitutional officer, just as sheriffs are, and that neither can tell the other what to do "in most instances."
"The attorney general can issue opinions of law. He can issue certain …
Dem governor in deep-red state calls for ICE pullout, triggering clash over enforcement authority
This affects the entire country.
EXCLUSIVE: Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman fired back at Gov. Andy Beshear's comments on "The View" about pulling ICE out of "every city," setting up what could become a high-stakes intergovernmental battle over cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
"Every ICE agent should be withdrawn from every city and every community that they're in. This organization has to be reformed from the top-down. Secretary Noem needs to be fired, and every agent needs to retrained," Beshear told the ABC talk show, before adding the "body-count of American citizens" should lead to a "pause [to] pull everybody back."
Coleman, who spoke to Fox News Digital from the sheriff’s office in Daviess County — home of NASCAR legend Darrell Waltrip and one of several Kentucky jurisdictions that work with ICE — said his take is "not a political one" and that ICE also has the backing of those lawmen he was meeting with after the interview.
"My view as the chief law enforcement officer of this commonwealth, someone that's carried a badge and a gun, someone that has been a federal prosecutor, [is] that statement that the governor made was absurd," Coleman said.
TOM HOMAN VOWS TO WORK AROUND NEW DEM VA GOV SPANBERGER'S EXECUTIVE ORDER ENDING ICE COOPERATION
Coleman said the dispute centers on Beshear’s "commentary" versus the reality of which agencies he controls.
The Kentucky State Police fall under Beshear’s authority, but they currently work with ICE. Meanwhile, Coleman’s office works with the state’s 120 county sheriffs’ offices, many of which cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security.
"I don't want to set up a straw-dog argument because the reality is the collaboration is never going to stop here because those of us who have taken an oath to protect families are going to work with our federal partners," he said, pointing to recent successes across the Tug Fork River where such collaboration led to the arrests of 650 illegal immigrants in West Virginia.
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As for the legal ramifications of a potential clash between a DHS-aligned attorney general and a governor with opposing objectives, one legal expert said the situation presents an interesting case.
Former Florida federal prosecutor Zack Smith said that while every state’s attorney generalship is slightly different, a governor is an elected constitutional officer, just as sheriffs are, and that neither can tell the other what to do "in most instances."
"The attorney general can issue opinions of law. He can issue certain …
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