S.C. AG Wilson to Newsmax: We're Building a Plan to Assist Deportations

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson told Newsmax on Wednesday that the Palmetto State is working on a plan to help advance President Donald Trump's mass deportation operation of illegal immigrants.

"I'm actually going to be working with our 46 sheriffs throughout the 46 counties in South Carolina," Wilson said on "Wake Up America." "I've already been in touch with [border czar] Tom Homan, I've actually been in touch with [Department of Homeland Security] Secretary Kristi Noem, who I think is doing an excellent job on Day 1, actually being on the ground with the ICE agents on the frontlines. Can you imagine [former DHS] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas doing that?"

"But the point is to have a line of communication between our partners at the federal level and our law enforcement leaders at the local level within our respective states," he continued. "So in the coming days and weeks, we'll be putting together a plan to try to onboard our federal folks with our state folks so that we can help them accomplish the agenda the president has set out with these mass deportations."

Asked if he's encountered pushback from county and local officials to the president's mass deportations, Wilson said he hasn't seen any from law enforcement officials.

"We don't have sanctuary cities in South Carolina, and I'm certainly not aware of any elected sheriffs that support those types of policies," Wilson said. "We had a sheriff recently, but they lost their reelection. But in South Carolina, we're very pro law enforcement. … We are very much against [illegal immigration]. I mean, last four years, I've had probably more than half a dozen drug trafficking cases where all of the drugs, all of the fentanyl, all of the illicit activity came from Mexican drug cartels south of the border — came up through Texas and into South Carolina. And so this is a real problem here in South Carolina. A lot of the illicit activity is starting down south of the border, it is ending here, and South Carolinians are sick of it. And we're going to try to do everything we can to help the president and this administration stop it."

Wilson also weighed in on the executive order Trump issued on Tuesday banning child gender transition care.

"Thank you, President Trump," he said. "We really appreciate this. … Our state is currently in federal litigation on a similar law in South Carolina, which South Carolina passed a law banning transition surgeries for minor children. … These are now controversial subjects in some corners of our society, but this is a position that the General Assembly has taken, and I intend to strongly defend that law that promotes and protects our children."

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