As the Trump administration ramps up deportation efforts nationwide, ICE has increasingly turned to local law enforcement through a program known as 287G, which has existed for nearly 30 years.

Under these agreements, sheriff's offices can hold undocumented immigrants in local jails before they are deported or transferred, and in some cases, officers are trained to

take part directly in ICE operations. Since January, the number of these agreements has

surged more than 640 percent. In Butler County, Ohio, Sheriff Richard Jones reinstated his

county's partnership with the federal government when President Trump returned to office. The county

has since

housed nearly 2,000 ICE detainees in its jails. And Sheriff Jones joins us now. Thanks for being

with us. Yes, sir. How are you doing today? I'm doing well, thank you. So as I understand it,

you have partnered with and stepped away from in some instances, partnerships on immigration enforcement

with the federal government across five presidencies. So from your vantage point, how does the Trump administration's

approach to immigration compare with what you saw and experienced under previous administrations?

That's pretty simple. Under Biden, it was hardly nothing. I fired them the four years they were there.

The most deportation we ever done when we had 287G,

the enforcement model and the jail model was under President Obama.

He was there eight years.

So he deported far more than Trump has in roughly five years.

What do you think people misunderstand about the Obama era deportations as compared to the present moment?

I think that it's in the past, it's history, depending on what TV channels or where they get their news.

They believe in whatever group they watch. But the actual

truth is, is that I've been in the deportation business and in fighting illegal immigration

for almost 22 years, five presidents, and I've actually been there. We deported when President Obama was president.

Eight years, he had eight years.

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