An FBI agent tipped off a Democrat sheriff in Wyoming’s sole anti-Trump haven about an imminent federal immigration crackdown targeting criminal illegal aliens, according to reports.
On Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) descended on Teton County to execute warrants against 17 suspected criminal illegals.
The Jackson Hole News and Guide alerted the community about the action as it was in-progress, citing information provided by Teton County Sheriff Matt Carr.
“Carr learned about the ICE operation Thursday from an FBI agent who was involved with it, the sheriff said, adding that that was a ‘very good thing’ because it gave the sheriff’s office time to let its street deputies know armed federal agents would be out in the county,” Cowboy State Daily reports.
Sheriff Carr said his “goal was just to let the public know, ‘Yes, they’re here but they’re here for targeted individuals and it was not any sort of widespread roundup.'”
Former top ICE officials blasted the sheriff and local media for effectively warning criminal illegals about enforcement operations in the area, calling it “bulls**t.”
“If there was an ongoing investigation he knew about, he could have said, ‘I’m not at liberty to discuss – there is enforcement activity happening, but I can’t discuss everything else.’ That’s what he should have said,” stated Scott Mechkowski, former deputy director for ICE’s New York office.
“I highly doubt he’d have said, ‘The DEA is still doing (expletive) DEA operations in my community’ until it’s over. Do you ever hear a reporter call a sheriff and say… ‘Hey, is the DEA doing work here today? Is the FBI doing investigations?’”
Tim Murtaugh, a senior advisor for President Trump’s 2024 campaign, ripped the Jackson Hole News and Guide’s reporting as “activism masquerading as journalism.”
“This publication is prioritizing people who break the law over law-abiding citizens in their own community and also putting the safety of law enforcement officers at risk at the same time.”
ICE reportedly notified Sheriff Carr’s office just four minutes before the operation launched, possibly because his office has reportedly ignored or sabotaged nearly all detainer requests in the past two years, as InfoWars previously reported.