What can a local deputy or officer do to enforce federal immigration law? They can arrest you on other federal offenses and turn you over to federal prosecutors, right? For example, the Florida Highway Patrols mission statement states: "To promote in a courteous manner a safe driving environment through aggressive law enforcement, public education, and safety awareness; reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes in Florida, preserve and
protect human life, property and the rights of all people in accordance with the constitutions and laws of the United States and the State of Florida; design and implement prevention strategies and aggressively enforce DUI laws and other violations identified as crash causation factors."
Would the aforementioned United States laws included immigration laws? Any attorneys out there?
I don't think that we can hope, locally, to do the thing that seems most reasonable--put the illegals in line for deportation and prosecute the employers--
but local govs can disrupt and harass the trafficking in black market labor just by toughening enforcement of certain driving violations.
If a community conducts a roadblock sweep of drivers without insurance and license (or allowing an unlicensed driver to drive one's vehicle, as is the case of many employers)--that will really ruin the day's slave labor. Arrest and charge all violators and impound the vehicles. Even if you can't keep them behind bars or deport them, you've disrupted the pipeline. Do it often enough, and the illegals will move on to greener pastures. Hey--maybe to a certain ranch in Crawford, Texas!