"Sheriff Joyce then delivered one of the most scathing critiques of ICE tactics by local police. In the three minutes, they got out, they pulled a guy from the car, handcuffed him, put him in the car. They all took off, leaving his car with the windows down, the lights on, unsecure and unoccupied. Folks, that's bush league policing. This guy, I knew, was not a criminal alien."
"We caught up with Joyce in Washington, D.C., days after he criticized ICE operations in Maine. He'd come for the National Sheriffs Association annual conference. - How are you? - Good day, Kevin Joyce. And to share his concerns with lawmakers. They came at him like storm troopers. The tactics. I called them bush league because it is. This is not professionalism, but it's meeting a quota. And you can't set quotas in law enforcement because bad things are going to happen."
On January 21, ICE agents in Portland, Maine, arrested Emanuel Landila, an asylum seeker from Angola who was legally working as a corrections officer recruit. Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce publicly defended Landila, called him "squeaky clean," and sharply criticized the tactics used during the arrest. Joyce described agents pulling the man from his car, handcuffing him, and leaving the vehicle unsecured, calling it "bush league policing." Joyce traveled to Washington, D.C., for the National Sheriffs Association conference to share concerns with lawmakers. Cooperation with local jails is required for mass deportations, and aggressive federal operations have frayed relationships with local law enforcement.
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