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When you are in a better mental state reread the article. You will see that Bush has changed the official policy in order to give local police authority to arrest illegal immigrants.

Kennedy doesn't like that. Many local police chiefs don't want to arrest illegal immigrants.

What is your opinion? Did Bush do the right thing by giving local police the authority to arrest illegal immigrants? Now you can demand that your local police arrest the illegal immigrants in your town.

When you are in a better mental state reread the article. You will see that Bush has changed the official policy in order to give local police authority to arrest illegal immigrants.

I researched, edited, found a source FR didn't object to and posted the article. I felt it was important enough to spend that much time on.

Kennedy doesn't like that. Many local police chiefs don't want to arrest illegal immigrants.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEY LIKE!

They're servants of the public and are charged with upholding the law.

As I said, local police have every authority (and the responsibility) to arrest and prosecute lawbreakers in their territories. State or Federal agencies can take over cases from the locals when the crimes involved are plainly above local levels or the local governments readily defer to the higher levels.

I'm promoting the CLEAR Act because it further clarifies these legal principles and will minimize the pissing contests that ultimately wastes our money and lets really bad criminals slip away on technicalities. When you get down to the basics our founders said our freedoms are given to us by God and efforts to take them away always come from men not in tune with that.

So Bayou, why do you expend so much effort defending wrong?

Now you can demand that your local police arrest the illegal immigrants in your town.

I have to agree with bayurod on this one in this sense: We need to work on our local officials to use the authority they have to arrest illegals.

Of course, I'd like to see the feds withhold funds fed funds from districts that do not enforce these laws.

Remember when the feds threatened states with loss of highway funds if they didn't comply with the 55 mph speed limit? The same sort of thing could be done with funds for schools etc...