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County sheriffs will be key to Donald Trump's promise of "mass deportations." Alongside community activists from CIMA, Jessica Pishko, author of The Highest Law in the Land, explains the roles of these elected officials, how they work with white supremacist and anti-immigrant groups, and how communities can resist.

Blending investigative reporting, historical research, and political analysis, The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy takes us to the roots of why sheriffs have become a flashpoint in the current politics of toxic masculinity, guns, white supremacy, and rural resentment, and uncovers how sheriffs have effectively evaded accountability since the nation’s founding.

Jessica Pishko is a journalist and lawyer with a JD from Harvard Law School and an MFA from Columbia University. She has been reporting on the criminal legal system for a decade, with a focus on the political power of sheriffs since 2016. In addition to her newsletter Posse Comitatus, her writings have been featured in The New York Times, Politico, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, The Appeal, Slate, and Democracy Docket. She has been awarded journalism fellowships from the Pulitzer Center and Type Investigations and was a 2022 New America Fellow. A longtime Texas resident, she currently lives with her family in North Carolina.

Compañeros Inmigrantes de las Montañas en Acción (CIMA) is an organization passionately dedicated to addressing the political-social context of the Latinx immigrant community through community defense, outreach, and education. They seek to create an integrated, informed, and prepared community in which people take care of each other and build collective power.

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Alguaciles y policías de el condado van a ser la clave para la promesa de “deportaciones masivas” que hizo Donald Trump. Junto a activistas comunitarios de CIMA, Jessica Pishko, autora The Highest Law in the Land (“La ley más alta del país”) explicará las funciones de estos funcionarios electos, como trabajan con grupos de supremacistas blancos y antiinmigrantes, y como pueden resistir las comunidades.

Combinando reportajes de investigación, investigación histórica y análisis político, The Highest Law in the Land: How the Unchecked Power of Sheriffs Threatens Democracy (“La ley más alta del país: cómo el poder desenfrenado de los alguaciles amenaza la democracia") nos lleva a las raíces de por qué los sheriffs se han convertido en un punto de inflamación  en la politica actual, de la masculinidad tóxica, las armas y la supremacía blanca y el resentimiento rural, y descubre cómo los alguaciles han evadido efectivamente la responsabilidad desde la fundación de la nación.

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