Posted on 09/30/2011 6:14:41 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
Some suburban police chiefs are blasting the Cook County Board’s decision to release from jail suspected illegal immigrants before the feds can take custody and possibly deport them.
The West Suburban Chiefs of Police Association sent a strongly worded letter this week to Board President Toni Preckwinkle, asking that she and county commissioners “rescind” the new policy, passed by a 10-5 voter on Sept. 7.
The measure allows Cook County Jail officials to ignore U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requests to hold an about-to-be released inmate for up to 48 hours so federal authorities can take them in to custody, question them about suspected immigration violations or even start deportation proceedings.
“I strongly disagree with the Cook County Board decision to not detain illegal immigrants on federal immigration detainers,” Thomas Q. Wetzel, Riverside’s police chief and president of the west suburban police chiefs association wrote. “This is setting a dangerous precedent for the public and law enforcement in the greater Cook County area.”
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In others they see nothing, they know nothing and have your life insurance up to date.
Chicago ping
The ‘RATS sure are fighting hard for their illegal alien voter base. I guess they’ve realized that they are really going to need the illegal votes in 2012.
Well it’s about time these LEOs start growing a pair.
bast them, bast them good!
Bunch of bast-ids.
If ya can’t blast ‘em, I say “Bast ‘em!”.
i am so glad i left crook county
Preckwinkle is Todd Stroger in drag.
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