A new police tactic has caused alarm among Chicago’s immigrant community. The term “poli-migra” has emerged in the local Spanish lexicon to reflect ongoing police efforts that have blurred the lines between local, state and federal authority. Immigrants from Latin American countries detained by Chicago police officers for minor infractions are increasingly ending up in “immigration hold” status. Fabiola Pomareda reports for Chicago's La Raza newspaper.
Drug gang's tunnel found under border
A tunnel used by a drug gang has been found between Mexico and the United States, state police in the northern Mexican state of Baja California said today.
The tunnel was 1.5 metres high and had lighting and ventilation systems, an elevator and air conditioning, said police director Juan Miguel Guillen Gutierrez. Its entrance was 60 metres from the border and went six metres deep. The tunnel was 120 metres long.
Following an anonymous tip, police arrested eight people allegedly linked to the drug trade in the house where the Mexican entrance to the tunnel was found.
Thank you for those links, MamaDearest.
The term “poli-migra”<<<
Thanks, I had not heard that phrase before.
I think it is backwards, it would sound easier as “Immigration-Police”.