Posted on 05/17/2005 6:06:03 AM PDT by Boston Blackie
Let's begin with a few unpleasant facts about the practical effects of the "sanctuary policy" Denver officials say doesn't exist.
• According to U.S. Department of Justice data, Denver claimed federal reimbursement for more than 1,900 illegal aliens in its jail system in 2004. Only 175 of those criminals were deported.
• More than 1,500 illegal alien criminals are being released into the community as they finish their jail terms instead of being turned over to immigration authorities for deportation.
• Denver jail officials do not routinely identify illegal aliens in custody and share this information with the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigration agents must do this identification themselves with few exceptions.
• An illegal alien who is taken to jail is not likely to be questioned about his immigration status or turned over to immigration authorities. Only major crimes get that kind of attention.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
I don't think it was the Mayor's restaurant. This isn't the only city with this stupid policy of not cooperating with the Immigation feds. The problem is also with the fed agencies reluctance to hold for deportation.
Alberto Gonzales anti-bump.
He owned a 10% interest in the restaurant, according to the news reports. He supposedly transferred it to a trust in order to distance himself from it. I would be surpised if that solves his problem, though.
He's in this up to his eyeballs.
False
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
You don't seem to realize how completely the Mayor was involved in this. His business hired the guy who got killed, and it hired the guy who committed the murder. If he weren't Mayor, the lawyers would be all over him.
You are terribly misinformed. The Mayor put his business in a blind trust after he was elected, he is not involved it the operation directly. The dead cop was working a baptism party that had no connection to the city or the Mayor at all.
I have no use for Hicky, but you need to get the facts right.
What a perfectly leftism idea! What did the restaurant have to do with the homocide?
The cop worked for the restaurant. He was killed on the job. Every state has workman's comp.
"Alberto Gonzales anti-bump."
I concur.
Thank you so very much for posting this.
The mayor does have blood on his hands for this murder for both the sanctuary and for being a co-owner of the restaraunt at which the illegal alien cop killer was employed.
Hard to blame Denver for being a "sanctuary" when, by leaving the borders open, it seems that we've decided on a national level the whole country is a sanctuary. Same with employers who hire illegals. When we have a de facto open border, why penalize employers? Frustration with "sanctuary" cities and unscrupulous employers is understandable, but it diverts attention away from the root cause: a Chief Executive who won't execute the laws of the country.
Tancredo bump.
Twenty seven per cent of jailed felons are illegals. Three hots and a cot, plus medical/dental care. Education, too...paid for by you and me.
I emailed the mayor's office and they kindly informed me that there was no "sanctuary" policy in effect and that they cooperated with the feds. I still think they are sneaky to both sides of the issue.
"I do not believe that elected officials can successfully be sued individually for actions taken in office."
That could lead to a terrible Pandora's box. Imagine the President being personally sued for dead soldiers. "That helicopter wasn't safe enough!"
We can win this battle through the election process. Empowering the judiciary is a very, very bad idea.
You can't sue them for negligence in their official capacity. However, if they directly defy the law, then their actions might expose them to liability. Let's take a hypothetical example. Suppose the Mayor orders the police chief to go beat you up for no reason. The police chief does.
Do you think that the Mayor can just say, "I'm Mayor. You can't sue the Mayor?"
I don't think so. There is a limit to which the Mayor is protected while acting in his official capacity.
The question here is whether the Mayor's pariticipation in a City policy which requires the police to disobey federal immigration law (which is undeniably the controlling law) crosses the line. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
In this case, the Mayor also has potential liability in his personal capacity. If I were the lawyer suing him, I'd make sure that I at least mentioned what he did in his official capacity in the court papers. He was way out of line.
"However, if they directly defy the law, then their actions might expose them to liability."
Such as suing Reagan for Iran-Contra, even though the people, sensing what the rats were about, shielded him from impeachment? Slippery slope, I think. We need to weaken the judiciary, not strengthen it.
I'll agree that there is a limit to it. But since a man is dead, and his family is without the support he supplied, this is a different matter.
In any event, there is always the fact that the Mayor was involved in this in his personal capacity.
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