Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said recent rumors of sheriff’s deputies conducting immigration raids or sweeps are false. Bianco said the sheriff’s office won’t conduct any such enforcement and sought to reassure anyone who’s a victim of crime that they should feel safe reporting it.
In a video posted to YouTube , he said most of the concern over law enforcement and immigration was being caused by “misinformation and fear mongering.”
“Let me make this perfectly clear, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and your deputies have not, are not, and will not engage in any type of immigration enforcement. That is the sole responsibility of the federal government,” he said in the video message. “Stories of deputies conducting raids at schools, businesses and churches are simply not true.”…