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Protests last june, sheriff hickman made his decision. he decided he was going to renew that agreement with the federal government, his local officers would keep doing that federal immigration enforcement work. but then you know, as it happens, sheriff hickman came up for re-election in november, and in addition to organizing those street protests, those same activists behind those protests had been very busy working on, among other things, registering latino voters in harris county. conveniently for those efforts there was a nice stark dividing line between the incumbent sheriff hickman and his opponent, a man named ed gonzalez. sheriff hickman was for that federal agreement that turned local cops int immigration enforcers. ed gonzalez said if he was elected he would end it. there are 254 counties in the great state of texas, out of those 254 only 27 went blue on election night, but harris county, the big one, harris ....