Posted on 10/25/2007 8:01:43 PM PDT by yorkie
The arrest of six illegal immigrants at the Qualcomm Stadium evacuation site yesterday raises questions regarding how San Diego Police handle immigration issues. Civil rights activists are concerned police may be violating their own policy with respect to the Border Patrol. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson has details.
San Diego Police are defending their actions at Qualcomm. They say six people were arrested on suspicion of stealing emergency supplies, including food and water, to resell them. And one admitted he was in the country illegally.
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San Diego Police policy allows officers to contact Border Patrol when a suspect is believed to be involved in criminal activity.
But that same policy forbids police from contacting Border Patrol if the suspect is involved in a misdemeanor or minor traffic infractions.
However, when questioned about the specifics of cooperation with local law enforcement, Border Patrol spokesman Damon Foreman said it’s not unusual for police to call Border Patrol when they stop someone for speeding or a broken tail light.
Foreman: They'll call us if they have to pull over a vehicle for whatever probable cause they have to pull the vehicle over. And if the people don't speak English or they don't present them with any documents at all...sometimes people present the police with a Mexican drivers license of they present them with a consular card, or something. And they'll call the Border Patrol for assistance.
It’s this close cooperation that stokes fear among many undocumented immigrants say immigrants' rights activists. They say that's especially true during emergencies like this week's potentially life threatening fires.
Activists say many migrants avoided evacuation and shelters or left Qualcomm because of it.
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Oh, they must mean ILLEGAL ALIENS!
If a citizen is found driving with out a license their vehicle is impounded,, I bet these “traverlers” trucks were not..
The police in San Diego now have to “defend their actions” for arresting law breakers who were stealing relief supplies and turning those law breakers over to the proper authorities? Have people totally lost their minds? Why is anyone even reporting on this drivel? How about the “civil rights activists” shut up and help with the disaster relief? How about the reporters find an actual story? It’s not as if there is a shortage of news there these days.
So the issue is how the authorities discharged their duties, not the crimes committed by illegals against the fire victims. Right.
Civil rights activists in most cases=busybodies.
Meanwhile, the men suspected of stealing were deported to Mexico.
Bravo to the SDPD and Border Patrol.
Bush’s fault! He set the fires to smoke out illegals... wait a minute, he wants amnesty. I’m confused.
Where’s Rove?
I just mentioned the same “reporter” earlier today:
http://lonewacko.com/blog/archives/007175.html
Please send an email to news *at* kpbs.org about their coverage.
That’s asking them to be responsible for their actions, can’t do that.
Whatever happened to that offical (Not Icebox Jefferson), that the cameras and press caught with the Katrina relief supplies and putting them in his garage? Let me guess, re-elected.
jUST LOOK AROUND THERE ALL OVER THE PLACE.
And damn well it should!
Kudos to SDPD for common sense.
I would treat them as looters and deal with them accordingly.
Criminals doing only what American criminals can not do.
BTW: What Civil Rights group, La Raza the race enabling and baiting hypocrite's who want to destroy this state and country.
This is one policy that needs to be changed. The whole story is a bunch of loony left ACLU BS.
You are right. With the MSM, Dick Turbin et al, it would have created a firestorm dwarfing the real fire causing one million evacuees to lose their homes.
The world is standing on its ears.
Ping!
This is the state that no longer has fathers and mothers. Anything is possible.
How about if the “civil rights activists” take a breather and go help someone in New Orleans?
According to Randi Rhoades it was Blackwater who started the fires.
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