Madison, Wisconsin (AP) – The Governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, said on Friday that each American should be concerned with the “relaxation” suggestions President Donald Trump's best border advisor That it could be arrested to say the councils that the Democrat has issued to state employees on what to do if faced with federal immigration agents.
“I'm not afraid,” said Evers in the extraordinary video Posted on YouTube. “I have never been discouraged once to do the right thing and I will not start today.”
In question is Evers council administration Published last month in response to state workers who asked what they should do if agents with American immigration and customs application appear in their offices.
The Evers directives advised them to immediately contact a lawyer and ask the police to return if a lawyer is not available. The memo also advises state workers not to put the paper files back or give the ice agents access to computers without first consulting the lawyer for the state agency and not to answer the agents' questions.
The recommendations are similar to the councils according to which the Democratic Governor of Connecticut issued in January. The guidelines Mirror also What National Immigration Law Center and other plea groups have said should be done when immigration officials present themselves in a workplace.
Republican criticisms argued that the directives were an Evers order not to cooperate with ICE agents, an accusation that the governor vehemently denied in the video on Friday. The objective of the directives was to give the employees of the State “clear and coherent instructions” to ensure that they have a lawyer present to help them comply with all applicable laws, said Evers.
He accused the Republicans of lying on advice and spreading disinformation to fuel a “false controversy of their own creation”.
“I have not violated the law,” said Evers. “I have not committed a crime and I have never encouraged or ordered anyone to violate laws or commit crimes.”
Tom Homan, Trump's best border adviser, was asked about Evers' note by journalists outside the White House on Thursday. Homan said: “Wait to see what is coming”, when they asked him about the note.
“You cannot support what we are doing, and you can support sanctuary cities if that's what you want to do, but if you cross this line at the obstacle or by hosting and knowingly hiding an illegal extraterrestrial, it is a crime and we treat it as such,” said Homan.
Some Republicans have adopted the possibility of arrest of Evers. The representative of the state of the republican Wisconsin Calvin Callahan published a false image On social networks showing Trump in a police uniform behind a sinister face everse in the handcuffs outside the state capitol.
The comments of Homan and Evers' response come a week after Milwaukee County Circuit, Hannah Dugan Arrested at the courthouse Of two crime charges. She is accused of having helped a man to escape the immigration authorities by escorting him as well as his lawyer for his courtroom through the jury door last week after learning that federal officers asked for his arrest.
