people turned out in the streets of houston, texas, they wore orange shirts and chanting, marched from the convention center to the harris county jailthey had signs reading "time is running outend to 87 jg" also "tell ron hickman that 287g tears families apart." ron hick mapp was the sheriff of harris county, houston, it's 4.5 million people. we're talking about montana earlier in the show. harris county alone has four times the population of all of montana. the decision facing sheriff hickman last june with the protests in the streets was whether his department would renew or end an agreement that he had made with the federal government, under that oddly named 287g. the idea behind 287g is that counties can sign a contract with the feds that allows the federal government to basically deputize local law enforcement to turn local police, local sheriffs into federal immigration enforcement officers. the policy has evolved over time, but the lasting criticism of it is that it hurts local law enforcement efforts. it makes immigrant communities afraid to call the police, even when they need help. if you're the victim of a crime, you need