Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

ICE Won’t Arrest Illegal Aliens Caught In Traffic Stops
Judicial Watch ^ | 8/24/2010

Posted on 08/24/2010 2:44:55 PM PDT by markomalley

In its latest surreptitious effort to protect illegal immigrants the Obama Administration plans to prohibit both federal and local law enforcement officers from arresting undocumented aliens discovered as a result of traffic violations.

It marks the third time this month that a covert plan to shield illegal aliens from deportation gets exposed. A few weeks ago the administration ordered authorities to halt the removal of some 700,000 illegal immigrants who are students while lawmakers craft legislation to officially spare them from expulsion. Weeks earlier an internal Homeland Security document revealed that the president has a secret backup plan to grant illegal immigrants amnesty in case Congress doesn’t pass legislation to do it.

This week’s plan du jour is to shield illegal immigrants who break U.S. law by operating a vehicle without a license or driving recklessly, possibly endangering innocent Americans. A draft policy issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says that agency Chief John Morton intends to prohibit his agents as well as local law enforcement officers from detaining illegal aliens stopped during traffic violations.

The three-page ICE memo was made public this week by a research organization dedicated to studying immigration issues. Even police departments that participate in the local-federal partnership known as 287(g) will be prohibited from apprehending or reporting an illegal alien in the course of a traffic stop. Federal agents will be forbidden from issuing what’s known as an immigration detainer unless the illegal alien has committed a separate criminal violation.

Morton is implementing the new measure in response to the “many concerns” of immigration enforcement critics (i.e. open borders, La Raza movement) who believe local police abuse their authority to arrest “innocent” illegal aliens in order to have them deported. That’s according to an ICE political appointee who discourages cooperation between local and federal authorities.

Never mind that local police across the country regularly encounter unlicensed illegal immigrants operating unsafe vehicles, smuggling other undocumented aliens or plotting serious crime sprees. Two of the 9/11 hijackers (Ziad Jarrah and Nawaf al-Hazmi) had been stopped for speeding by police in separate states but were not detained even though they were in the U.S. illegally.

Jarrah was ticketed by a Maryland State trooper just days before he boarded United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a Pennsylvania field, and al-Hazmi, one of the 9/11 masterminds, got pulled over in Oklahoma around eight months before he crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; dripdripdrip; ice
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-37 next last

1 posted on 08/24/2010 2:44:58 PM PDT by markomalley
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: markomalley

This is impeachment material.

He is not faithfully ensuring that the laws of this nation are executed.

He needs to go.


2 posted on 08/24/2010 2:46:57 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualProsperity
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Americans will die because of this.

Their blood will be on Obama’s hands.


3 posted on 08/24/2010 2:47:57 PM PDT by LowTaxesEqualProsperity
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

“to arrest “innocent” illegal aliens”

Obama must be tried for treason.

If found guilty then executed.


4 posted on 08/24/2010 2:49:17 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Communities regularly fight the construction projects, Walmarts Starbucks and even tree removal.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Problem?- What problem?- Bookmark.


5 posted on 08/24/2010 2:49:21 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

ICE Headquaters

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRlIDCMbv9G_C-FrdGtmjt1U0bro7ilsOUJ-GsNyoC2A4E8klw&t=1&usg=___SNDMzuPFyL-W-bTREPlX34RaBA=


6 posted on 08/24/2010 2:50:20 PM PDT by A. Morgan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LowTaxesEqualProsperity
"Americans will die because of this.

Their blood will be on Obama’s hands."

As long as they're "old-school Americans" (white, patriotic legal citizens) so much the better as far as he's concerned.

7 posted on 08/24/2010 2:52:08 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: LowTaxesEqualProsperity
"This is impeachment revolution material." Fixed that for you.
8 posted on 08/24/2010 2:52:19 PM PDT by ByDesign
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Timothy McVeigh was caught in a routine traffic stop. Although he wasn’t an illegal alien, this shows how important following up on such stops is.


9 posted on 08/24/2010 2:52:39 PM PDT by libstripper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Guess not.


10 posted on 08/24/2010 2:53:02 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (People tend to make better decisions when held to the ramifications of those decisions)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

What? Then have to deport them? I think they should use the honor system.. Where everyone that is here illegally will turn themselves in to be deported! Oh we don’t have a illegal problem it’s an undocumented problem!


11 posted on 08/24/2010 2:53:56 PM PDT by tallyhoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

When our federal agencies no longer do their job they need replacement


12 posted on 08/24/2010 2:54:20 PM PDT by aeonspromise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LowTaxesEqualProsperity

Americans have already died by the actions of Illegal aliens, allowed to enter by the Government in violation of many oaths of office.


13 posted on 08/24/2010 2:54:59 PM PDT by omega4179 (JD Hayworth)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: LowTaxesEqualProsperity

Hell, there aren’t two congresscritters in the past 40 years who haven’t voted and supported at least 25 brazenly unconstitutional laws.


14 posted on 08/24/2010 2:55:21 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Islam is the religion of Satan and Mohammed was his minion.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

Sounds like Houston, where if you are white and driving an expensive car (BMW, Mercedes, Infinity etc.) you will get stopped and ticketed, but if you are driving an old pickup dumping garbage onto the streets with 8 grown men crammed into the cab and 3 in the bed of the truck with a beat up trailer they won’t even stop you.


15 posted on 08/24/2010 3:00:36 PM PDT by King_Corey (www.kingcorey.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

To nail Obama on treason for not enforcing the Constitution, we have to get our people in the Congress first!

So get busy and get ‘em elected!


16 posted on 08/24/2010 3:02:00 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley

To nail Obama on treason for not enforcing the Constitution, we have to get our people in the Congress first!

So get busy and get ‘em elected!


17 posted on 08/24/2010 3:02:00 PM PDT by Sen Jack S. Fogbound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley
Impeach Obama! Now!
18 posted on 08/24/2010 3:02:06 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley
What is TREASON in 2010? Congress and past Presidents put these laws on the books for a reason. What gives the undocumented Kenyan the right to throw these laws in the trash?

The new Democrat party wants our country to get to the point where the Constitution is ignored and any law they can get the majority to pass is the new law of the land.
19 posted on 08/24/2010 3:06:02 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: markomalley
We use to arrest folks for traffic violations and more serious offenses then we found out they were illegal. When we contacted the Feds their response was usually along the lines, “if you get a busload, we might think about coming for them” That was an attitude we dealt with for the 30 years I was on the job.
20 posted on 08/24/2010 3:10:51 PM PDT by animal172 (Where are you America?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-37 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson