Politicians who run for higher office often show their real colors when it comes to critical issues of the day.

Take for instance Kent County Commissioner Katie DeBoer. She represents District 4 in Kent County, but is also running to be a State Senator for the 33rd District.

DeBoer, like the rest of the Kent County Commission has been either silent or dismissive of the Cosecha campaign to get Kent County to adopt the 6 sanctuary policies the immigrant-led group has been demanding since the beginning of 2025.

Throughout the past 18 months DeBoer has been one of the commissioners that has remained silent on the sanctuary policy demands, along with not sharing her thoughts on the federal agency known as ICE.

However, now that DeBoer is running for a State Senate seat she has made it clear where she stands on ICE and immigration. Now, you won’t find anything on her campaign page , but she does mention where she stands on undocumented immigrants in a recent political video her campaign created.

At the 20 second mark in her video DeBoer says, “I will deport every criminal illegal immigrant.”  The image that shows up in the video is what is included here above. Clearly, Katie DeBoer sees all undocumented immigrants as illegal, and like the current administration wants to deport them all.

Equally instructive is the fact that listed on the endorsements section of her campaign page, in fact second on her page is Michelle LaJoye-Young, Kent County Sheriff. This makes complete sense since Sheriff LaJoye-Young has been collaborating with ICE for years, even before she became sheriff.

After the embarrassment of what happened to Jilmar Ramos Gomez in 2018/2019, Sheriff LaJoye-Young was forced to save face and say that the Sheriff’s office will require ICE to have a judicial warrant if they want someone held at the Kent County Jail. However, as Cosecha and GR Rapid Response to ICE have discovered back in 2025, the Kent County Sheriff’s Office is not following their own rule and is holding immigrants in the jail for ICE, where they are eventually transported to the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, MI.

In this sense Kent County Commissioner Katie DeBoer and Kent County Sheriff LaJoye-Young are on the same page regarding ICE and immigration policy. They are both in favor of criminalizing and deporting all undocumented immigrants.