Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris, shown here in a photo from 2024, has said that his agency would be working “in tandem” with federal authorities’ immigration enforcement. (Photo by Kathy Plonka/The Spokesman-Review)
In late January, federal immigration officials got a lead on three people in Idaho they thought, based on information shared by Kootenai County Deputy Harvey Ballman, “may be illegal.”
Not only that, but Ballman was “more than willing to send us more information in the future,” wrote one Border Patrol agent in an email, passing along the addresses from Ballman of the three targets of immigration enforcement weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term…