The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office is expanding its work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from the jail to the streets. The sheriff signed a new 287(g) agreement in July that gives certified officers the authority to conduct immigration enforcement.
Tulsa County Sheriff Vic Regalado told the Flyer Tuesday nine deputies have been certified since he signed the 287(g) Task Force Model agreement July 7. Those include all six deputies who make up the Drug Interdiction Unit, which targets traffickers and crime rings, and three task force officers assigned to Homeland Security investigations.
“Their responsibility is assisting and conducting investigations into drugs, narcotics investigations, guns and criminal organizations — things like that,” Regalado said. “During the course of their investigations, they come across and come in contact, more often than not, with individuals who are here in the country illegally committing these crimes.”…