Obama seeks to end immigration enforcement by local, state police

The Washington Times ^ | May 18, 2015 | Stephen Dinan and Ben Wolfgang

[2ndDivisionVet]

The administration issued a report Monday saying that in order to rebuild trust between police and their communities, the federal government should stop enlisting state and local police in most immigration enforcement, setting up another challenge as President Obama tries to please immigrant rights advocates while carrying out deportations.

The recommendations were part of Mr. Obama’s policing task force, set up in the wake of riots last year in Ferguson, Missouri, to suggest ways federal officials can help local police do their jobs better. The heart of the report called for curtailing transfer of heavy weapons and tank-style vehicles to state and local authorities, but the report also delved into the thorny issue of immigration, saying government must “decouple” enforcement from local police.

“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security should terminate the use of the state and local criminal justice system, including through detention, notification, and transfer requests, to enforce civil immigration laws against civil and nonserious criminal offenders,” the task force said....

[2ndDivisionVet]

Of course.

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[Veto!]

Does it ever end with him?

And what right does he have to interfere in states’ rights issues?

[Gene Eric]

The Marxists are salivating for a national police force.

[themidnightskulker]

one of the few duties of the Federal Government specifically enumerated in the Constitution is the necessary defense and securing of our borders.

[CPT Clay]

argh

[zzwhale]

i thought the courts already tied his hands on this issue

[Ben Ficklin]

Keeping local law enforcement out of immigration enforcement dates back the Great Irish Immigration.

This was a long standing/successful policy that GW Bush and the GOP decided to change for political/economic reasons.

Bush and the GOP got a lot of political mileage by hiring lots of new border patrol agents(costly) and refused to hire any new interior enforcement ICE agents.

Instead, they pushed this off on local law enforcement even though it is clearly FedGov's job to enforce immigration law and local taxpayers should not be paying local taxes to do what FedGov should be doing.

Also, George Bush was not very diligent on doing workplace enforcement because that is expensive and alienates the GOP campaign donor base.