well well look who it is, it was actually him who was at work with all the recent expansion of DHS and ICE memorandums. seems like we cant get rid of the guy! sad...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.

Kansas hard-liner Kris Kobach says he helped write a get-tough executive order for President Donald Trump that clears the way for state and local law enforcement officers to put into deportation proceedings immigrants they apprehend who are in the U.S. illegally.

Now Kobach wants to make that the law in Kansas.

Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, who served on the Trump transition team, told McClatchy’s Kansas City Star that he helped craft a little-noticed directive in Trump’s Jan. 25 immigration order to revive one of the most controversial federal immigration initiatives of the the last decade.

The program, which President Barack Obama rolled back in 2012, gives police, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers the authority to help get immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally out of the country. It had led to the deportation of thousands of immigrants for minor offenses and provoked accusations of racial profiling.

The White House would not comment on Kobach’s role in revitalizing the program.

Trump’s order does not in itself give law enforcement officials the authority to detain immigrants. But it kicks open the door for state and local jurisdictions to enter into agreements with the federal government that would empower them to do so, under the supervision of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.

A week after Trump issued his order, Republican lawmakers in the Kansas House and Senate introduced a bill in the state Legislature on Kobach’s behalf. The bill would require the Kansas Highway Patrol to seek an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that would deputize state troopers to enforce immigration laws.

Kobach is a staunch conservative who was considered for a Trump administration post. He previously has convinced the Kansas Legislature to pass some of the strictest voting restrictions in the country. But after moderate Republicans and Democrats gained seats in the Kansas Legislature in 2016, he could face more difficulty shepherding bills into law this year.

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