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Hardline MAGA sheriff slams Trump botched immigration crackdown

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An Ohio sheriff who has built his career on tough immigration enforcement says President Donald Trump's administration got its second-term crackdown wrong from the start. "Now, has [immigration enforcement] been kind of messed up when they first started this under [Trump's] 2nd term? Sure they have," Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones told WCPO-TV . "Did they go about it in the wrong way? Sure they did." Jones, who calls Trump a "real leader" in his book, “They Call Me Jonesy: Let’s Get Real About Saving America," said the administration has since replaced some personnel and moved to what he called a "softer approach," which he praised as good. The sheriff also raised doubts about the scale of Trump's mass deportation promises. "You can't deport 20, 25 million people," Jones said, citing his own estimate of the number of people living in the country illegally. "I don't even think [Trump's] deported maybe over a million." Jones has worked with federal immigration authorities under seve