CHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) -- A South Carolina sheriff is preparing to carry out federal immigration enforcement in his community.

Queen City News obtained records outlining the new Chester County program.

Sheriff Max Dorsey agreed this summer to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement through what's known as its Task Force Model.

“If we can remove people from our communities who are, first and foremost, here illegally, we want to do that," Dorsey said in an interview Wednesday.

The program empowers certain officers to “arrest without a warrant any alien” who the officer has “reason to believe” is in the country illegally.

Queen City News Reporter David Schuman asked Dorsey what qualifies as “reason to believe.”

“That is an ambiguous question," he said.

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