N.J. cops must ask about immigration status

Northjersey.com ^ | August 22, 2007 | ELIZABETH LLORENTE

[Coleus]

it's about time!

[FormerACLUmember]

I don’t believe this phony KYA press released will be enforced one iota.

This is New Jersey, crookedest democrat party state in the union, home to Sanctuary City Newark, where immigration status cannot be investigated nor laws enforced.

[chaos_5]

I’m waiting for the ACLU and La Raza to sue.

[Maynerd]

Tide shifting. The multiculturalists are screaming but even the dems see enabling illegals as a losing political proposition.

[Coleus]

With US Attorney Chris Christie involved, I think they mean business, time will tell.

 PhotoU.S. Attorney Christopher Christie, left, listens as New Jersey State Attorney General Anne Milgram announces immigration policy today.

[Coleus]

"The overriding mission of law enforcement officers in this state is to enforce the state's criminal laws and to protect the community that they serve," Milgram said. "This requires the cooperation of, and positive relationships with, all members of the community. Public safety suffers if individuals believe they cannot come forward to report a crime or cooperate with law enforcement."  The 7-page directive also sets guidelines for municipalities that apply to federal immigration officials for Section 287(g) authority, which deputizes local, county and state officers to enforce federal immigration laws. While the directive grants the full exercise of federal immigration authority at county jails and state prisons for incarcerated undocumented immigrants, Milgram said, street cops participating in 287(g) could invoke federal immigration authority only after an arrest is made.

Morristown's application for 287(g) authority, the first in the state, has generated heated debate in the Morris County community. One other New Jersey municipality has inquired about the program, according to ICE officials, who would not identify the town. Milgram's announcement came amid questions about how Jose Carranza, an illegal immigrant from Peru who is a chief suspect in the Newark schoolyard killings, was released on bail earlier this year after being charged with child rape. Authorities are still determining whether a second suspect in the killings, Melvin Jovel, 18, was also in the country illegally.

The case has drawn national attention from those who decry illegal immigration, including Rep.Tom Tancredo of Colorado. The Republican presidential candidate visited Newark Monday and said local officials were complicit in the murders for refusing to deny government services to undocumented immigrants. In Newark and other cities with large immigrant populations, officials note that detectives investigating robberies, rapes and murders already are struggling to develop informants among a population fearful of the police. Adopting the role of immigration cops would make that job even tougher and allow criminals to go free and commit even more crime, they have said.

"I do not want to create a chill in my community where people are afraid to come forward to police and report crimes," Newark Mayor Cory Booker said last week. "Undocumented immigrants and immigrants within our city are an important part of our fabric. And my police department, it is not their role or responsibility."  About one in five of New Jersey's 8.7 million residents was born in other countries, according to U.S. Census figures. The state is also home to an estimated 450,000 illegal immigrants.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Damn shame it took the murders of those teenagers.What a messed up place.

[tina07]

Geraldo’s gonna be mad, ooooh....

[jiggyboy]

We probably need only six or seven hundred of these kinds of massacres nationwide for the relevant cities and states to similarly spring into action.

[tina07]

Video of Whack-eraldo on Hannity and Colmes tonight, talking over Tancredo, defending illegals as usual....

http://www.foxnews.com/hannityandcolmes/index.html

[ARE SOLE]

Dude looks like he never met a meal he didn't like.

[DoughtyOne]

I’m not going to give them kudos for finally doing what they should have been doing all along. It’s shocking what passes for something we should cheer these days.

While I’m glad, this should never have been an imperitive. It should have been a natural. We should never have come to this.

[OrioleFan]

Jerry Rivers?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Bring in on, La Raza. Bring it on MALDEF. Bring it on ACLU.

We...Will...Kick...Your....As*es...in...the...court...of...law.

Kuru nara koi!

[tina07]

yep, Mr. Pro-illegals himself.

[dennisw]

Is drunk driving a major enough crime to determine the drunk’s citizenship? It sure as hell should be. These illegals are always driving drunk. Driving drunk should be grounds for deportation

[tina07]

he’s been busy eating up a lot of corrupt NJ politicians, mostly dems, yeah!

[ARE SOLE]

he’s been busy eating up a lot of corrupt NJ politicians, mostly dems, yeah!

In that case, I'd buy him a sandwich.

Regards

[Beckwith]

Don’t you just love politicians — the damage is done — now they act.

[gr8eman]

We probably need only six or seven hundred of these kinds of massacres nationwide for the relevant cities and states to similarly spring into action.

Had to read your post 3 times for it to sink in how pathetic and true it really is!