The Idaho Statesman reports the Canyon County Sheriff’s Office and Caldwell Police Department released a joint statement Wednesday contradicting ICE claims of orchestrating a Sunday raid that was not an ICE-led operation, despite what the Department of Homeland Security indicated.
“To be clear, this was not an ICE-led enforcement action,” said Sheriff Kieran Donahue and Police Chief Rex Ingram. “The statement released by DHS yesterday claiming responsibility for dismantling a criminal organization was completely false and a serious misrepresentation of the facts.”
Homeland Security claimed in a Tuesday media statement that “ICE dismantled an illegal horse-racing, animal fighting, and a gambling enterprise operation” and that “as part of the operation ICE law enforcement officers arrested 105 illegal aliens,” according to the Statesman…