Patrick said he won't have the staties invilved in arresting illegal immigrants in the state because they don't have time.
>>he won't have the staties invilved in arresting illegal immigrants in the state because they don't have time.
the real reason is that he doesn't want his potential voters arrested (and who knows some of them may have wound up on the voting rolls already somehow...)
Of course, the MA Staties "don't have the time" to do their jobs: their union got laws passed that keep them busy acting as flagmen on road construction jobs.
MA has no flagmen -- but every road job (no mattter how small) does have lots of high-paid State Troopers -- sitting in their idling, expensive, heavily-equipped State cruisers "providing security" -- on high-priced overtime!
Talk about union graft and "featherbedding"!!!